Textured Tuesday: Too Little, Too late

After a summer with temperatures that ran 10 to 20 degrees 

higher than normal and very nearly no significant rainfall, 

the temperatures have broken and and it rained heavily twice

within a four day period.  But its too late for the crops and a lot

of the trees. Much of the midwest has been declared

a drought disaster area. In my neighborhood, many of the trees

have dropped at least some of their leaves, while some of the 

smaller trees have died.