So far this summer has been dry as a bone (“near- drought conditions,” the weather service calls it) followed by stream-filling thundery deluges (“rain, heavy at times”).

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The year’s first chanterelles should be glowing brightly on the forest floor.
Tonight, they’re calling for frost – hopefully the last frost – in cold spots.
Now that the ground has really frozen, some of us can cross a few jobs that we didn’t quite get to off the list.
Luckily, singing season for the veery lasts a long time. They’re still at it, mostly in the mornings and evenings.
A friend and I were trying to decide which birds were the most aggressive at the birdfeeder and we concluded that they all were pretty feisty, from the mourning doves right down to the hummingbirds.
The first cut of hay is coming down. Farmers around here are leaving 4″ instead of the traditional 2″ because it’s been so dry.
Scarlet tanagers tend to sing from the treetops and the leaves are big enough now to obscure them. It might take a little time to see one but it’s well worth the effort.
Brooks that often dry up in late summer around here have dried up. It is getting closer to late summer than I like to acknowledge,and it has been abnormally droughty.