More Bad News

Not gun related this time, but still...

While out cruising down the Platte and up the Highline Canal on my bicycle, I'm noticing an unusually large number of dead trees. It seems that the drought is killing off the weaker ones and the late Spring isn't helping.

I've lost a peach tree, a walnut, and several shrubs and the remaining trees are very slow budding out. The late snowfall and freeze has stopped all flowering on the plums, apple, and remaining peach, so no fruit this year. The squirrels will be eating the bark off the trees to stay alive, so if I don't thin that herd, I'll lose the rest of the foliage weather we get any rain or not.

Cold and Dry: Global Tundra.