HOT HOT HOT

 "I say, it's so hot, the hens are picking up the worms with potholders..." -Foghorn Leghorn

 It's so hot the cats are flopping.

 The last of the roses wilt

 Cosmos drips sweat

 Dahlias dangle on their stalks.

 "Life was beginning over again in the summer...." -F. Scott Fitzgerald

 Daisies wilt.

 Dragon's blood does NOT.

 On the greenhouse you can hear the crackle of Cordelia's paddy paws.

 Bees sleep in the Verbascum. The flower heads hum.

 "Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability..." -Sam Keen

 The kids on the hill scream in delight when they are given melting popsicles in the heat of day.

 Fire pits are lit.

 Dogs bark at the air. Crows dive bomb the bird bath. I think they're playing "chicken"....

 "I almost wish we were butterflies...." - Keats

 And way over there, somewhere, there is a comet.

 But for now  all that can be heard are people talking, some singing, some laughing and splooshing buckets of cold water  over themselves....... cause it's hot hot hot......

        "Weather forecast for tonight...Dark..." -George Carlin

Photographs 2020