"They think I should have seen it coming and walked around the mud patch!"

A mud patch on the road-I slipped, went to my knees.

The big farm truck went through the mud patches without slowing.

Out across the mud patch it looks empty.

A new drainage system was installed underneath the field in the winter of 2005-2006 to prevent mud patches which had become a problem.

A mud patch showed irregular marks of tires.

The blue mud patches had vanished, and the coarse mats of brittle grass and vegetation were thicker.

I nearly fell into a deep mud patch.

"If we raise a big mud patch on the surface - stirring up the bottom like a mud pie - they'll spot it," said Bonnett.

Two bedrooms waited upstairs, each with a small window overlooking the mud patch out front.