Summer Insanity

It happens every year.  It's so predictable, I can look ahead and predict things will not be sane until October.  The insanity will go on this summer and be heightened by the drought, whose magnitude increases with every dreadfully hot and dry day.  The soil has turned to dust. 

We are happy to get as much water on the fields as we have been able to.  The creek is running dry, however.  Second crop still looks good and is growing fast. I expect early flowers due to the heat and the drought.  Third week of August.  That's what I predict for second cutting time......

It's lily blooming time.  Tall tiger lily buds fatten every day.  Red lilies delight and white lilies brown in the heat.  

Life's fast pace has me crabby.  I'll be the first one to acknowledge and admit this fact.  Here we are in summer, the most amazing time of the year in these mountains - even in a drought - and we run around with no time to sit and enjoy it, to go for a walk down the lane, to pull weeds and pause.  Pause to stop.  Too much, too much.