We hadn’t had much rain here lately in Lexington. Cold weather, yes. And snow. And recently, a couple of gloriously warm days that felt like spring. But not much rain.

Then, yesterday morning, it started raining … and it continued to rain all day. Yesterday evening, the severe storms and heavy downpours blew through. After all was said and done, we ended up with more than two inches of rain.

On my way into work this morning, I took some pictures here at the Kentucky Horse Park:

this creek (with quite a current going this morning) is usually at most a trickle ... or dry

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... another view of the same, a little farther downstream

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... and a little farther downstream again, with the Alltech Arena in the distance

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this is spot where the creek, when it's full, seems to settle and spread into a bit of a lake

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... and another view of the same "lake" ... these are normally paddocks, of course

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... and the very full creek, winding its way off into the distance