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).