Oh, YES!!! t
Today was another day it did not rain...and it looks as though tomorrow will be the same as today....There is a childhood song that is currently haunting my mind...it begins something like....'Rain, rain, go away, come back another day...' But there seems to be no opposite version that I can think of...
And, yes, the grass is as high as an elephant's eye....pollen still floats up from the grass and down from trees to annoy hay fever sufferers (me) everywhere.
Our grass is now actually beginning to droop as if with heat exhaustian. The plums on the wild plum tree are not swelling - the fruits on the cultivated trees are small and scabbed....cherries barely cover their pits with flesh....some leaves are wondering whether to just drop off now - or to wait for a little gust of wind to decide for them..
The flat temperature frog stuck to the terrace door...the outside of the terrace door ...only just manages to get to 20 C.....the real frogs who normally infest the valley pond have gone to look for water elsewhere.The valley pond is formed by drainage water from the road above gradually oozing through the clay of our sloping fields.. There will be no frogspawn for passing herons this summer - but herons may get advance knowledge and go another way..
The only sacrifice I can think of making - in hopes that rain will come - is to leave my heaviest, newly washed bath towels, on the grass to dry. We shall see in the morning - but hope to hear from rain in the night.
