mucky

A digger tucked into the dumped piles and loaded a trailer, which was then pulled across a vast expanse of mucky wet ground by a tractor.

But I wonder how many other 23-year-olds get up every day at five in the morning for the mucky, and vital, job of milking?

In “New Heraldry,” Seattle artist Sara Osebold imagines a new world after “total collapse,” through canvas drawings and clay sculptures imprinted with mysterious, textlike symbols and ceramic fragments found in mucky Seattle creek beds.

I tell her we’re doing a sort of mucky mascara thing, and she’s like ‘darling, nobody’s wearing mascara in New York'.”

Those who remained Sunday described a resilient community making the most of the mucky conditions: Many posted selfies of themselves covered in mud, dancing or splashing in the makeshift lakes.