Steady Rains and Flooding

It rained. It rained very hard, all night long. It is still raining hard...many hours later.
The driveway has been breached by the beaver pond, and there are a few inches of water flowing over the driveway in the lower portion. The forest is a mass of flowing water. Furiously looking how to construct beaver piping. It looks like a lot of steps and I am no carpenter.
Part of the country is inundated with water, the other part parched and scortched with fire and sun. Climate change.
I caught a pollywog on the driveway, it squirmed in my hand and I jumped. Out back a bull frog leap from the grass, a little out of his element as normally it would be closer to the ponds.

Mother bear encounter

This morning I was out finishing up a slow jog in the mist on the main road, when whoof, I heard the grunt of a displeased mother bear as her two cubs scurried up a nearby tree for safety. She did a false charge and I moved slowly backwards reassuring her as I did. The bear cubs soon came down as I moved a respectful distance away. She was still nervous and she dashed across the road and then back again.
I moved around the corner out of sight and then waited wondering when it would be save to walk the couple of hundred yards back to our driveway. The tall bush made it hard for me to see. I moved further up the road and stopped a driver on the dirt road above our house. He, too, had seen the bear, but in his yard earlier that day.
He did not offer me a ride, which what I had really wanted but eventually I got a pickup truck to stop, loaded with mattresses in the back, and they took me the few hundred yards back home.
No sign of the bears, but they understood my hesitation to walk back home those few yards.
Next time I will carry my cell phone and some pepper spray.
I named the bear, mom is Tweeley, the cubs are Agatha and Abby, though I have no idea about their sexes.
We think it could be the female that ate acorns on our lawn a couple of years ago.

Stormy Weather

More severe weather - last week torandoes touched down on the Connecticut River in Western Mass. and destroyed property and 3 lives in W. Springfield, Mass. Watches were issued in NH, too, but no reported sightings.
This week we had some hot, muggy weather Mon-Thurs. culminating in severe thunderstorms which moved quickly from West to East, downing some powerlines and trees in the process. Our town had minor damage and we only noticed one small tree down and some scattered branches.
The heavy storms issued in a cold front, and today, Saturday, we are beset with heavy downpours and our driveway has been breached a bit by Cook's Creek, the near the new pond.
Lots of wildlife sightsing lately - a gray fox, red fox, swimming turtle, many frogs and a marganzer duck (female), and last Sunday a fishercat, which sleeked slowly out of sight down by Racoon Beach. This frog in the photo was intent on catching its next meal and did not pay me any mind.