...And Finally it Rained...

The water from the new beaver pond has drained out to just a small stream and now the swamp looks like a marsh at low tide.

But today is has been raining off and on all day, a break to this dry spell we have been having this summer. Meanwhile over in Pakistan the country is experiencing unprecidented flooding.

The blackberries around Beatitude Pond are past their prime now and now it is the elderberries turn, along with other (non-edible) varieties of berries...a final dose of color before the frosts turn leaves into their autumn brilliance.

More Heat

According to the news, we've had 20 days of over 90 degree days in the state capitol this year. Wow! the grass is thirsty. When I walk through the grass, hundreds of small locusts spring from my steps.

I saw a cicada, I think. I don't remember them up this far North. It feel from the sky and buzzed my shoulder. The blackberries have been more ample than every before.

The pond is a rust red with globs of algae that looks like clumps of hair (however on further inspection, it is clumps of dead grass that either the beaver or a muskrat has uprooted in its foraging).