Heat

TODAY IT WAS HOT…..

Today was a day, just like oh so many days we’ve had this spring…HOT HOT HOT!!

We’re in a terrible drought…trees dropping their leaves like it’s fall, lakes

dropping to very low levels..

I don’t know what the temp was today,,somewhere in the nineties again….

so today it was time to take action…or as much as we can take action…some

areas of town have watering restrictions…we are on a well, so it’s our call.

I watched the squirrels this morning and the hotter it gets, the more they use

their tails as little sun umbrellas to keep cool….the hotter it gets, the lower

their tails get over their heads…

Late this afternoon I saw something that just broke my heart….

Two robins who were obviously over heated….the longer I watched them sit with

their beaks open…to help cool them….the more they started to lean over toward

the ground…they seemed to be really close to….I don’t know…collapse?, death?

They were holding back, watching the squirrels in the bird baths, not daring to

come too close to them…but you could tell they really wanted to get to the water..

I found any somewhat flat container that I could and filled it with water…then hubby

came home and turned on the lawn sprinkler…he’s my hero…within a short time, there

was a female cardinal simply sitting in the gentle spray and not too long after, the

robins found the water….tomorrow I buy ANOTHER bird bath !!

So here are a few images that did my heart good…even just the spray of the water

was beautiful..