It's getting ghostly, not because there's too much darkness, but because there's too much light... 
the dandelions have given up. 
Underneath the ghostly sheet, an oak sapling. Four days of over 40 degrees temperature are enough to extinguish many strugglers -
- this is not an easy country. It makes you or it breaks you. 
I long for a land of plentiful water...
...as does my girl.
Is it an emergency, here, now? I don't know, but even the toughest wilt.
At least there is life still. It is paramount, is it not, to have birds in a garden? It is here, for me at least.
It's no use shutting windows or doors - the heat, it permeates everything.The most challenging time is this, this white-hot season, when the help you hope the world will get may be thwarted. And so you accept it. Or must.
