Summertime, Summertime..

It has sure felt like it, several days this week. But first, back to the previous Saturday, which is the last time we mowed.

The boys found a baby sparrow in the front yard.


It was completely adorable :-)
And we moved it to a safer location, though the parents were pretty frantic when I picked up their lil' darlin'.

Two days of heat advisory, this past week. Finally on Friday, we got out the sprinkler.
Nolan gets clean feet for the first time in nearly a week, while Trevor makes a few crucial adjustments to his swim goggles.

There were death-defying leaps!


And feats of gymnastic prowess!


And earlier this week, the field just south of our property was sprayed. I went out to check the wind direction since the boys were lugging out bricks that had been dismantled from the first chimney. It was blowing pretty straight, from west to east. I decided they would be OK.

However, there was enough fitful gustiness, that drift occurred.

I know this because I could smell it while sitting on the porch, putting on my work shoes. Still, I figured it was just the odor, right?

Wrong. Within a day, mysterious brown speckles began appearing on some plants in the garden. My cosmos flowers, all tall, bushy and soon ready to bud, turned brown.

Not everything is dying, but Carolyn's spaghetti squash plants, which had been producing flowers, began curling its (formerly green) leaves.

My second planting of beets, newly sprouted, look....well....beat.

Even some plants up next to the house have been affected.

But saddest of all (other than the flowers), my newest trees, only five of which had leafed out...my trees which I have tended with waterings nearly every night....my trees over which I've agonized (OK, that's a bit much, but still...) and rejoiced as two more recently showed signs of life....are in various stages of withering or dropping their leaves.

I can't say as I'm mad, just very disappointed and discouraged. Though I suppose the exercise invested in weeding and planting, etc. can still be considered good.

And I noticed the sprayed field of beans are turning brown, with mottled leaves, as well. Have to wonder if someone didn't spray too high a concentration?

Alas for the wounded plants.
 

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