Creek Gauge Diary
A notebook of one small creek: height, colour, and whether the stepping stones showed.
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After a night of rain
The creek peaks before breakfast and is back by noon.
Timeouts and budgets for a reading
A visit has a budget of twenty minutes: walk, read, write, walk back. If the stone is underwater, the reading is taken from the bank and marked as such, rather
August goes dry
The gauge still stands; the water does not.
Colour means silt, not depth
Brown water can still be shallow.