The Long Hot Summer 2022

CONTENTS

Preface: Pictures, Poems, & Meteorology

Preliminaries
                    Only 16 months ago
                    Promise of rebound, March 2022
                    Fond hopes of spring

The Summer
        Long hot summer
        Weeks and weeks over 100
        Gerbera maintenance schedule
        Pond at the bottom of our hill
        Escape of the velvet ant
        Succulents are right at home
        Cattle egrets’ roosting tree
        Designated look-outs
        Impersonating roseates

Reprieve
        Finally, rain
        Puffball (?) mushroom
        Fungi everywhere
        Snail after rain
        September resurgence
        Rainy sunset
        Deck-the-halls fall

Endnotes

What comes next
        Hurricane season dead ahead

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