The topsoil in flowerbeds and yard is dry but not cracked nor hard to work.  Underneath it's moist but not wet. Some watering of early vegetable plants has had to be done. Farmers are now in the fields.  It seems late this year but there has been significant rain prior to this week and most field are now dry.  My lower muck field which floods often in the spring, has been wet and had standing water for several weeks and become a wetland with visits from migrating waterfowl and now a couple of resident Canadian Geese, is beginning to dry out.  It's been unseasonably cold this spring and last night was the first night I didn't have the heat running.  This is pretty late in May to have on the heat.  Cool temps have kept the yard from growing as rapidly has usual despite the rain and has required less mowing.  Some mulberry trees are behind in blooming with the last frost/freeze effecting the forming fruit and a few larger trees are using their second set of leaves and just coming out.