Lots of rain last night...and today it's HOT..beetles loving it.

Hope this is a 'good' beetle! Good you are getting sun and some heat. It makes such a difference to everyone and everything.
Nothing but rain here. Garden getting wrecked before my very eyes! Grrrrrr.........

Shame about your clematis Lori.

Hi Oji...I wish. they are busily consuming my clems and the leaves of my oenothera's are in ribbons...we've had the ideal...hot sunny days with a storm to cool off in the evening.
If it's not one thing...it's another, cinderella! Next year I hope to have the clems planted with my rose...will make sure the soil around the clem's roots is washed away before I place them in fresh soil beside my rose. don't want to import these B....rs. BTW...you are right..it is Macrodactylus subspinosis....Rose chafer! YUCK! and guess what? they thrive in sandy soil! oh dear.

Lori:

Send some rain (but no beetles) here to San Diego. lol!

It's been hot and no rain for many months...and we won't see any rain until late Nov., most likely.

We've had only a short hour or two of rain since the 22nd, June...and according to the weather man we are heading into a period of extreme heat and humidity. What can we do? How do you manage over such long periods with no rain??? the stream is just a trickle and everything is drying up. Hope the well holds out.

I've read about the extreme heat and humidity back in the mid-West and eastern states and into Canada.

We're used to not having any rain for 6 - 9 months. Although, yesterday we had a few little tiny showers from the monsoonal flow. It was just enough to wet the sidewalk. lol! :>)

It's been hot and humid here.

As long as it's close to the norm...so much of our weather has be abnormal or extreme. Still dancing...(raindance):-)

I'll do the raindance for you and I! LOL! :>)

Deal! ;-)