Saturday, August 6, 2011

Brown State of Mind (Texas Version)


 Its been one whole week since we came back from our visit to our son in San Antonio. Texas is in such a brown state of mind. That is: it's smokin! As in DRY and BROWN. Feel sorry for the Texas gardeners. It is the worst I've ever seen it, and I lived there during the last long drought in the late 90's. (that sounds weird, 90's). Of course you know what follows a drought-a flood.
 The dove didn't seem to mind the heat.
This is the newest irrigation technology developed by Texas A&M: the hose goes to a porta-johnny. I heard it will save thousands of gallons of water.
My next post will expound on my visit to the San Antonio Botanical Gardens.

15 comments:

  1. Greggo,
    This looks more like AZ to me. In these places if you do find water it can be exciting, the butterflies and plants are abundant.

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  2. It is bad here. Just waiting for a hurricane to blow through.

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  3. Great capture of the doves! I know I complain about our lack of rain in Georgia but it is nothing compared to what all the TX gardeners are experiencing. I am parched just looking at the photos!

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  4. It won't be long till those tropical storms start appearing on the horizon.... sure looks brown and crispy.

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  5. It reminds me some dry summers in Southern Italy... Wishing Texas a lot of rain very soon!

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  6. Here in Ireland we are still waiting for less rain and more sunshine.

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  7. I have been seeing in the news reports of how bad things are getting in Texas. Even lakes drying up.I feel so sorry for the farmers and everyone. It well take a lot of rain to get them back to normal. Hopefully they well start getting rain soon.

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  8. I hope their heat wave ends soon and things green up a bit...

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  9. I have been thinking a lot about Texas gardeners. Our own June drought was followed by good July rains. We haven't had a hurricane to come through the gulf yet. I don't know if I want that, but a little tropical depression would be nice - I hope one heads toward Texas.

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  10. Texas A & M does some awesome work on water conservation and horticulture. They developed the "earth kind" rose series. A group of drought tolerant hardy roses.

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  11. I was in San Antonio in the summer of about 1966. It was hot and humid. But this is a new planet, meteorologically speaking (among other things). I do a rain dance for Texas!

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  12. The Spot a Pots are watering the garden? I love the idea of recycling water I just didn't think they'd be using humanure water. Seems like it would spread disease. I've added rain for TX and other drought stricken states to my daily prayer list. It's about time for some divine intervention!

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  13. I think we can almost walk across Lake Travis, now. I keep telling myself that it will rain eventually. Your photo depicts exactly what Texas looks like...brown with a few green yuccas.

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  14. So sad for the heat and lack of rain. Texas really has the worst of it, but a friend was from OK said the same too.

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  15. We were in San Antonio last week and it's brown almost all the way there. No relief in sight.
    David/ Houston

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