Upcoming, the Worst Summer Ever, fer These Parts

Sometime during the previous brutal winter the rains stopped. Yet the wind blew and blew. The wind blowed! Consequently, there is no moisture in the soil. So, anticipating little or no rain, and dust dry soil, these parts are fixing to make Hades seem cool as a cucumber. Mercy on me! Only the air conditioned and irrigated shall prosper.


This cultivar pleach, the tree is half plum-half peach, knew something was up and commenced to flower weeks ago, sucking up almost the last of the moisture in its parts. Crumby kept thinking, This is crazy. It’s fixing to come another freeze. Is this pleach, nuts, or what?

Hemaris diffinis on pleach cultivar, plum flowers. Now the peach part is flowering. But the petals are deformed.