Mud Creek

1024mudcreek_1635, a photo by iamabraham on Flickr.

I thought about the good times I once had a place we called, "Mud Creek."The creek isn't much to brag about but did have one hole or deep spot so you could swing three or four feet before touching bottom. Mud Creek was a more of a draining ditch than an actual creek. It carried water off of several adjacent farms in the area as it flowed south to the beginnings of larger streams like Miller's Fork. When I turned the corner and drove down the little hill to where Mud Creek used to be, I was greeted with this thicket of bushy shrubs and weeds. What happened to "Mud Creek?"I wondered. I had a find a lane to turn around in so I could go over the culvert again. I am positive nobody swims there these days and I doubt that anybody knows it used to be a happy place where boys jumped in the pools as naked as J-birds.