Yard & Garden - First week of September

Dry, dry, dry
Ditch water turned off
More shade cloth
(Back to "normal" hot.  Not terribly windy.  Humidity back up, by and large.  Cooling off overnight, so that mornings are glorious.)

Rotten banana seed pods and the Ladderback Woodpecker at his castanets.

Harvesting the peaches  (how could I say something as utterly sensuous and yummy as they are without being cliche on one side, and obscure and unintelligible on the other?)

Zinnias - spectacular.  Still a few stray Painted Ladies flitting around.

Lace vine and garlic flowers in full swing.  Glorious, and thick with bees thank god.

The plum tree ravaged, while I stand helpless, unable to take decisive action to try and save her.

Ice.  Ice. Making ice.  Ice water.
Chicken poo and small wormy windfall apples piling up
Stray feathers - a few black and white ones, a few reds, a few whites and all of a sudden, Brahma feathers

Gloria and I are getting tired, running out of stamina