It's Dry in Alabama

We need some rain. The swamp across from our house is completely dry.



The wildlife must cross the street to the lake to get water now.



Deer and Turkey Tracks

The lack of rain has made arrowhead hunting difficult. Nothing new is coming up. Kathy and I went on a walk last Sunday to a spot where we hadn't hunted in awhile. There had been a little rain since we had been there last time, but not enough to wash more than a few flakes up. We didn't find anything finished.

We took a different route come than we had used to get there. It was getting close to dark. I decided to cut through a spot that is often good for a few artifacts after rains. It is a small spot, but has deep erosion. I had just hunted it less than a week ago and didn't expect to find anything. But a site can never be hunted thoroughly enough that something new can't be found - even if there is no rain since the last search. Thing hide in shadows and behind and under vegetation. Sometimes just a speck of the artifact is showing above ground, and it takes a certain vantage point to see it.

On this occasion, Kathy decided to walk on the side of a deep ditch on a route that we don't normally take. When she said that she saw something, I looked down and told her it was just a crayfish claw. She said "no, something beside it." I looked closer, and saw what she was seeing.





I got down in the ditch and dug this arrowhead out of the bank.