Pictures say it all.
The silver lining about being in a red zone is that we weren’t under that heat dome. Every day I was grateful not to be in those 110° temps.  

My pics are from April-May! After a while, I got too discouraged to shoot my personal garden where in spite of any amount of water added, the tomatoes stubbornly refused to produce, and all the other vegetables died.

Much of the country was under water, and I was posting scorched plants!

I picked up that Al Gore video, “An Inconvenient Truth”, and when he was talking about record deluges, coupled with record droughts, it made a great deal of sense…

I wonder what those people who still disbelieve climate change made of our year… They prolly simply stayed indoors under the air conditioner, and refused to look out the window… 

Be sure to visit my post “The Year in Review” for an overview of the year’s blogging highlights, and I’ve also posted a 4 part post on the growing season that concentrates on each individual season.

Drought monitor pic courtesy of http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/