I made a run to the ranch last week to set up the deer feeder and camera for the final census count for this year.  While there, I checked on the “pond.”  Here’s what it looks like now:

The hogs have been wallowing in the puddles, which, frankly, are more numerous than they were a couple of months ago.

Here’s what it looked like around this same time in 2002:

Where I was standing to take the first picture, would have been in the water on the second picture.