After The Rain


It’s painful to think about the hammer that’s falling on humanity. So, perhaps this will help:

The view from my porch at dinnertime.

Comments

  1. says

    kestrel@#3:
    It looks like the trees are about to flare up with color soon.

    Probably next week but maybe the week after. It has been unusually warm here this fall. Go figure.
    I’ll probably miss it because I have a day-trip to Houston next week.

  2. says

    It has been unusually warm here this fall. Go figure.

    Where I live, this summer and autumn were unusually hot. It was very hot, for very long, and even September was hot. Only now, in the middle of October, weather finally starts getting colder and similar to what you normally would expect in autumn.

    I wonder why. . . Go figure. /sarcasm tag

    And it wasn’t just hot, it was also extremely dry. A friend of mine decided to plant some new fruit trees this autumn, and the soil was completely dry, it was like dust. I also saw plenty of wilted plants. Large trees with deep roots did just fine, but all the plants that don’t have deep roots, well, they didn’t do so well.

    The average city dweller probably hardly even notices this, after all, supermarkets are always full with food and the water tap always has water in it. But for people who utilize underground water and grow food crops this summer was problematic.

  3. jazzlet says

    leva
    We had a two month spell with little or no rain, so small an amount of rain that the ground would be dry again half an hour after it had stopped. Even when we did start to get what seemed like plenty of rain regularly it wasn’t enough to close up the cracks in our clay soil for weeks. I hope your friend managed to keep their trees adequately watered. We had poor crops of onions and garlic because they were just too dry and we couldn’t water them enough, although the shallots did very well.

  4. says

    jazzlet@#8:
    We had a two month spell with little or no rain, so small an amount of rain that the ground would be dry again half an hour after it had stopped.

    Meanwhile, up here, it’s soggy and unseasonably warm. I have a bunch of craptrees I need to cut down and I can’t even take my truck into the field because there’s a good chance it’ll wind up buried to its hubcaps (and then I’ll have to sweet talk my neighbor into pulling it out with his backhoe) This has happened before, so I am reluctant to make it a “thing.”