The water in the pond is gone. The fish are easy pickings for the birds these days and the plants are all struggling too. We have been in this drought all spring (and really going back into the winter) and the pond has just slowly gone away. Here is what it looks like now.
This pond at one time was filled to the brim, which would make the entire pond about 10-15 feet deep in the middle, now you can practically walk across the pond. You can just see the pipe going into the pond on the right. That was completely under water and unseen last year and the total volume of water this little pond holds is enough to be visible on Google Earth, but not right now.
This summer we are having to go around and water individual trees to keep them alive. A high pressure system remains over the southern part of the United States and just will not give up any ground. So, we are left with these scortching clear skies every day. No clouds, no rain, no humidity (which is really strange for the south in the summer), just a clear blue hot sky. Eventually it will have to start raining again, but it doesn’t look like it will happen for a while.
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