It’s hot.\u00a0 Actually, it’s scorching hot.\u00a0 Thirty days in a row of temps 100 degrees or more and it is just July 31st.\u00a0 Six more weeks of Summer and this coming week our temps are heading toward the 110 degree mark.\u00a0 To add to the misery, we’ve had no appreciable rain since May.<\/p>\n
Texas is in an extreme drought situation.\u00a0 Our ground is so parched it is visibly cracked.\u00a0 Fires have been rampant across the state, burning thousands of acres of grasslands and forests as well as homes.\u00a0 Cattle are dying for lack of feed and water and many of the rest have had to be sold.\u00a0 Rivers, lakes, and ponds are drying up and the States’ water table is declining.\u00a0 I heard on the news a few days ago that the way the drought is going Texas could soon become the world’s 7th largest desert.\u00a0 That is quite easy to believe.<\/p>\n
I don’t “do” heat well.\u00a0 For me, that means that taking photos right now has been very hard.\u00a0 Other photographers may do okay with heat, but I just can’t spend much time outside, especially in th esun, attempting to get decent photos of, well, anything really.\u00a0 Even standing in the shade to take photos is not comfortable.\u00a0 The best I have been able to do this summer is take lots of photos of the dogs and sunflowers.\u00a0 The dogs, who usually enjoy spending time outdoors, now just want to go out, do their business, and come back in.\u00a0 I don’t blame them.<\/p>\n
And so, until this heat pattern breaks I am bound to be frustrated without my one creative outlet.\u00a0 Pray for rain, pray for cooler temperatures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It’s hot.\u00a0 Actually, it’s scorching hot.\u00a0 Thirty days in a row of temps 100 degrees or more and it is just July 31st.\u00a0 Six more weeks of Summer and this coming week our temps are heading toward the 110 degree mark.\u00a0 To add to the misery, we’ve had no appreciable rain since May. Texas is in an extreme drought situation.\u00a0 Our ground is so parched it is visibly cracked.\u00a0 Fires have been rampant across the state, burning thousands of acres of grasslands and forests as well as homes.\u00a0 Cattle are dying for lack of feed and water and many of the rest have had to be sold.\u00a0 Rivers, lakes, and ponds are drying up and the States’ water table is declining.\u00a0 I heard on the news a few days ago that the way the drought is going Texas could soon become the world’s 7th largest desert.\u00a0 That is quite easy to believe. I don’t “do” heat well.\u00a0 For me, that means that taking photos right now has been very hard.\u00a0 Other photographers may do okay with heat, but I just can’t spend much time outside, especially in th esun, attempting to get decent photos of, well, anything really.\u00a0 Even standing in the shade to take photos is not comfortable.\u00a0 The best I have been able to do this summer is take lots of photos of the dogs and sunflowers.\u00a0 The dogs, who usually enjoy spending time outdoors, now just want to go out, do their business, and come back in.\u00a0 Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2y5uS-3i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}