I’ve been hesitant to plant fall flowers due to the lack of rain. The ground is extremely dry, cracked, and lifeless. It’s time to start planting now, but I want to wait for some area-wide soaking rain. Hopefully, the road construction in front of my property can resume over the Thanksgiving break when schools are closed. It’s been 26 days, and despite the rain we received, it didn’t add up to a tenth of an inch. We had more dew and fog than rain. In the front yard where I’ve been renovating the lawn, Bermuda grass has been growing for eight weeks and now has runners up to two feet long. It continues to grow despite the dryness because it’s has been usually warm. However, the Bermuda grass runners aren’t rooting into the soil at the nodes because the soil is too dry. Red oak trees and other native deciduous trees have dropped many leaves, and mulberry trees are completely leafless. Bald cypress trees have a beautiful rusty brown fall color. Sparrows are drinking water and taking cool baths in the new shallow pool I installed this week.