Springing back to life...

Last week we had one rainfall, but it lasted about six hours. It is always amazing to see the effects of the first rain. 24 hours later, the once-dry earth was covered with a green fuzz of grass.



And the grass wasn't the only thing coming back to life. See if you can spot the black line running along our drive:



Much closer up, you can see individual ants carrying things back to their anthill.





Before the rain the anthill had been looking abandoned, so I assume these are new ants which hatched out with the rain.