After Sunday's Post About The Drought

this happened:

It was overcast! 

Sunday morning the sky looked beautiful in a promising or threatening way, depending on your need of rain.  

I sat in my chair, which is even more dangerous for me to sit down in than it's difficult to get up from. 

I may have to ease up on my shopping moratorium and buy a decent chair. 

Anyhow, safely seated, reading the Washington Post on my Kindle Fire, I saw a picture of a house submerged in water almost to the roofline. The result of too much rain, which caused severe flooding in Kentucky.

And I felt I should not complain about our dry landscape and vanishing animals. 

We are all in this together.

There's probably little hope for anyone to escape the ravages of climate change. 

I'm glad to have lived most of my life without this threat.

I'm sorry that I have contributed to it, albeit in a comparatively small way. 

And I will deal with my dry land, dying trees, and vanishing animals as best I can. 

Finally, I was happy to see a large Jack rabbit (hare) this morning.

As of Sunday afternoon, no rain so far.

15% chance, which mostly results in no rain. 

Sunday Morning Reflections

I've reflected on my junipers lately, as this drought marches on and I fear will kill off so much on my land. 

And how it has affected me emotionally.

I want to write some posts about how the drought has changed  my land and its inhabitants. Who lived here before, when it rained, and there was such a variety of animals and insects. 

Where they all went I don't know, but they are gone. 

What Happened To My Yard?

Fire abatement rules mandate that all weeds must be removed by June 1. After removal, 100 feet around my house should look like this picture, just dirt. Not the prettiest, but safety is more important. 

In the 15 years I've lived here, even during the drought years, my yard would look like this by mid-May. I posted this on May 11, 2020.

Each year, no matter what, weeds grew with amazing speed and I needed to hire someone with a tractor to clear my yard.  

It looks like no tractor will be needed this year,  since my yard still looks like this, except the tree and the lilac bush are both green now and look healthy. 

I'm having problems with Google photos, so I can only show old pictures right now. 

The difference in my yard from last year to now is so huge, it's like a premonition of what's to come if we humans don't change our ways. 

I was sure that the effects of our changing climate would not be noticed in my immediate environment in my lifetime. 

I was wrong.