Swamp Rising

The water under the bridge is almost as high as it ever was. The Withlacoochee River is over its banks and sending that wonderful clear tannic colored water racing under the bridge and into the other side of the swamp. Hundreds of ibis are looking for food and alligators and otters have been swept out from their usual habitat. Our natural world is happy.
And so is my technological world. Finally, we got back our internet after almost a week. I hired a Geek (Alex Smart, can you believe it?), who reconfigured everything that had been decimated by the recent storms, and so, now everything works perfectly and faster than ever. Alex Smart is younger than my youngest child, devoid of any sense of humor, and incredibly knowledgeable about anything digital. He was alarmed at the hugely loud trumpeting of the sand hill cranes in the yard and he was clearly worried that his zippy Z car would run into trouble in the sandy ruts of our mile long driveway. As he finished up the work I casually asked him if he'd like to live here. So great. Here he was alone with a really old lady in the middle of nowhere. "Oh, no! I have signed a non compete contract!" I love these strange contacts! Probably Alex Smart sings in his church choir and does a few lines behind the sacristy. And visiting me was maybe the best adventure he had today.
My brother and his wife (from California) are scheduled to appear this evening so I have turned on the lights in the guest house and put out fresh fruit. Lots of family coming to this place that is so spectacular in early spring with the intense green of the fields punctuated by the wild galloping of the new calves, blooming trees in the woods, bats and fireflies, hummingbirds by the dozen zooming around the main house with the porches encircled by honey suckle vines.
This place is truly heaven on earth.