110 In The Shade

Well, I don't know if any of you have been to Phoenix..or Arizona...and if you have been, you probably did not come in the summertime.  Starting about now it is becoming very warm...I think it will be 110 today and tomorrow again...it is slowly creeping it's way up to the 115-118 range and it will be this way for the next four months or so. 

You can feel it and see it all around you, hot...dusty...brown...lawns, gardens are all starting to scorch up, not the prettiest time of year here.  What looked like this just a few short months ago....

Now looks like this...

My beautiful sunflowers were marched out of the yard today...:(

A few of them were saved to feed the birds, and they are ever-so-happy about it...

but for now, I will have to find my "green" somewhere else, it sure as heck won't be in my yard!