August, still

[puddleshark]

At home, the leaves are already dropping from the birch and the oak trees, autumn come very early due to the drought. And still no prospect of any rain. But down by the marshes, though the paths are unusually dry, summer is lingering. The heather and the dwarf gorse still flowering, and grayling butterflies are still on the wing. A small family of swallows were swooping through the blue sky and above the purple heather, but no signs that the swallows have started to gather yet.

Comments

[heleninwales]

You are very good at spotting butterflies!

Everything is still very green here. though the neighbours' apple tree -- which is laden with fruit -- has some leaves turning brown.

[puddleshark]

Grayling butterflies have such amazing camouflage. They fold their wings and vanish.

What little rain there was all went north of us this summer. It is incredibly dry. Like 1976. We need to appoint a Minister for Drought immediately. 😊

[nikonf3]

Lovely shots. Sorry to see everything so dry. We are currently in our longest stretch of Really Hot (+ or - 38 C.) of the summer. We've been very lucky of have avoided it this long. Still, we're used to brown, or golden as they like to call it. But seeing your green and pleasant land looking like California summer?! A bit heartbreaking.

[puddleshark]

Thank you.

We never quite reached California temperatures here, fortunately, but it has been unpleasantly close to 30 degrees C a couple of times. I'm hoping the drought will break next week when the tail-end of Hurricane Erin is supposed to be arriving. It is scarily dry here.