At the north end of our property, an ephemeral creek flows this time of year. The cows love it and I appreciate not having to fill their water trough every day. It flows into Bacon Creek just past our property, our little tributary is unnamed. (Thank goodness! In Idaho that gives us control over it!) Taking the back way home from our local hot spring leads you to the other end of that creek, where it flows into Goodrich Creek which is a proper year-round waterway.
Just after Bacon Creek joins it, Goodrich Creek flows into the Weiser River and all the water that fell on our property heads out this canyon on its way to the Snake River.
Just a little further down the road you come to this view. That is the town of Council in the distance with the shoulder of Council Mountain on the right, and just out of frame is the local dump. Idaho's landfills have spectacular views!
I got a picture for @papa-pepper's contest this week when our neighborhood llamas were being friendly. I can hardly see a llama without thinking of a poem I learned as a kid...
He's a priest.
The two-l llama,
He's a beast.
And I will bet
A silk pajama
There isn't any
Three-l lllama.
-- Ogden Nash
Up in Council, there is a new display at the museum. It is a little sad that the high school football team is "The Lumberjacks" and the town was built on an economy that included all sorts of forest products and now what we have is a display at a museum, no jobs or economy.
This sign makes an interesting observation... the employer once valued skilled employees, now they value high-tech and the humans are losing the skills. We are a rather short-sighted species, it seems to me.
