12 May 08

Wind, Hot, Out of the North

Wind, hot from the north -- crows and wood ducks We’ve had no rain for three months. We’ll likely get none at all till November.

The dust now blows and gets in our eyes, our nose, like some dustbowl parody. The garden clings to its billing as drought-tolerant, for now.

The birds are clinging, meanwhile, to their treetop nests, swaying and dustblown.

Posted by at 11:12 PM in Bird of the Day | Link |

  1. Wish I could send rain your way. A road we usually take into town has been flooded on and off for a while now. The fields off the road have become ponds and lakes. Really cool in a way because we’ve had some unexpected shore/water birds. Just the other day, we saw a spotted sandpiper bobbing and teetering where normally there’d be starlings.

    Nice flight sketches!


    — Teresa    19. May 2008, 19:23    Link

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