It's Dry Out There

It is dry, dry, dry. I've been watering every couple of days or so, but it just seems to disappear by the next day. We're in drought restrictions for the summer, now, so I can only water enough to keep everything alive at the moment.

Just a few minutes ago, though, the wind kicked up and some dark clouds are building. The bamboo - dry and crinkly as it is - is leaning over almost double out there. Hopefully we'll get some rain out of this, but lately it seems everything just skips right over us and dissipates in the air. You'd think, dry as it is, we wouldn't have mosquitos, but it doesn't seem to have deterred them any.

There's a new generation of baby barn swallows peeping out of the nest in the eaves this weekend. The previous set still perches in the porch eaves at night, hunting the bugs attracted to the porch light.

There are a few things blooming. I couldn't get a decent photo of the lantana, which is blooming its little pink and yellow heart out, but here are a couple of photos from the garden today.