Ray's Thought for the Day - Handy Hot

High temperatures at the CB ran above 100 all last week and the same promises for this week. South of the river, where there has been no rain worth spit for four months the unirrigated are crispy. So just to really challenge my natural good humor, Raymone and me took a few photos of the historic johnsongrass pasture at the southeast corner of Brodie Lane and Hwy. 290 west. There are four photos, in honor of the absent Crumby Ovate, four being Crumby's number.

Photo one is from the Kohl' parking lot looking south. Photo two is a little to the west. Photo three is fairly west, maybe, and photo four may be north of west.

Brodie Lane is famous for shopping these days and the shopping affords Red some tax relief. However, all the asphault and the 24/7 inching along of thousands of automobiles does tend to make it hotter in this neck of the former woods and johnsongrass cropland. All the lighting makes the night, brighter, too. Photo four has some text added, indicating Raymone's precise location when he took that picture.

The hundreds of acres of asphault references the adjacent Hwy. 290 west corridor and more automobile temporary parking (for the automobiles) areas. Hundreds of acres may be a tad, conservative. Alas, the CB sits amid prime habitat for the Wicker Man.

On the sunny, happy side, look how sunny, happy and green those irrigated plants are, next to the parking lot.