Climate Change.

7-27-09 VERMONT: Today we had an intense short T-storm at midday that dumped 0.3 inches in about twenty minutes. Yesterday I emptied 1.3 inches from the gauge—the total rain since the beginning of June has been 11.3 inches. Annualized, that would come to 68 inches of precip—a whole new climate for us here. Hopefully, our aquifer is getting recharged.

I have been catching up with chores. I finished the mulching of the roses, added pavers out front, added gravel to the driveway, cleaned the culvert again, cleared the path by the driveway, weeded and pruned, filled holes dug in the lawn by a certain puppy, who shall remain unnamed.

New blooms: pumpkin, echinacea, two-tone daylilies.



What's as dramatic as a lily?