water!

I drive by this dam every day I go to work, or even in that direction. There's been no water coming over it since early July at the latest. The same day I went to look at the creek at home, I took my camera to the dam.

Finally some trickles of water.

There was a lot of intense blueness around that day.

It seemed as though everything surrounding the water was leaning towards it.

Then, after it rained heavily (I'd love to know how heavily; my rain gauge blew over) the day before Thanksgiving and snowed Thanksgiving morning, I went back to see how all that water had helped. 

That's more like it!