Hopeful plantings...

Due to rising costs, I decided to try my hand at a crop.  My crop is trees.  After the drought from a couple of years ago, we have lost and continue to loose trees.  An arborist said Texas will loose a very high percentage of trees (70%+/-) over the next several years as a result of that drought.  Planting whole trees is too expensive so have decided to plant acorns.  I am planting oaks: Burr Oak, Red Oak, and Shumard Oak.  I have been collecting acorns the last week or so and have "classified" them as follows:

Admittedly the "classification" is not scientific other than to say those acorns identified as small, medium, and large have leaves that are turning a bright red right now.  So maybe an unofficial ID of Red Oak might be best.
Peg and I planted close to a hundred and are hoping we get a 5-10% success rate.  Both of us dreamed out loud that it would be cool if in 20-25 years we are walking around the farm and see all the red leaves of those trees!
One of the reasons I decided to get with the planting is central Texas has gotten a lot of rain in the last week or so.  Maybe 10 inches or more.  The ground is wet and there is more rain forecast for next week. 
Pictured below is another tank on the farm which usually has only about a foot of water in it's small "bowl".  You can see that the water has spread out into the trees and pasture.

Our pond/tank is as full as we've ever seen it also.

When we headed out to go to Salado by the "quicker" back road, we encountered the low water crossing filled with water.

We have never seen water over this roadway.  Maybe it shows that we are going into wetter weather  conditions which may help our acorns.