Summer drought

I could dramatize here a bit and say that I don't remember how rain looks like. I could. Because it has been a long time since it rained. The sky is blue, the sun is hot - the usual. And it is gonna be weeks until the weather changes and it starts to finally rain.

All the areas that are not regularly watered are dry and yellow. Some flowers might bloom here and there, but it generally everything looks quite miserable. That's why summer sucks :p

The Briza below is light green in spring. Now the whole plant is dead and the little pockets rattle on the wind. Quite a pleasant sound.

After the spring boom dry seeds are everywhere. Spiky ones, fluffy ones any shape and size. Some are protected by nasty thorns, some shoot out to get as far as possible from a mother plant.

This is how the area looked like.
Plenty of sunburn and bug bites to catch.

Bonus shot:
Despite the are being very dry, it is full of bugs, seeds and the trees around provide some shade. There is plenty of birds around that I could hear, but I couldn't see. Except this little one. He stopped for a bit on the lower branches and then few away.

Can you see it?

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_{Shot with Nikon D5500 + Sigma 105mm lens
All photos and text are my own.}