A long hot summer
Drink the lifeblood of the land
Draining it dry
Wide shores to greensward
Transforming desecration
Lake to rivulet
Greed ignoring need
Blind to Nature’s warning laughs
Empties the chalice
Exposing the depths
Drowned villages re-emerge
Giving up the ghost
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Oh these are gorgeous, Sue!
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Thank you. The reservoirs were incredibly low.
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Most welcome. We’re having a bit of flooding just now…
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The ground is so dy here that a wet winter will bring flooding here too.
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Oh goodness, I’m sorry to hear that.
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We need rain…and will complain about it if we get it 😉
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Well, that’s kind of true everywhere 😉
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🙂
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🙂 ❤
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This is the first year in ten that our rivers have not been reduced to mud. We are lucky they haven’t overflowed the banks. We have not be flooded … but if the rain doesn’t stop, it’s not far off. How strange because summer is typically dry and I don’t think we’ve had two days in a row that weren’t rainy.
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The reservoirs have been low for a few years now, but this series of huge lakes have dried to a trickle this year. We really need a wet winter.
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We only had a few days of rain all year long. There was a talk about mandatory water rationing.
Your set of haiku tells a good story, Sue!
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We tend to forget how dependant we are on rain…
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Yes, we get water from northern California from piping system. We’ll die without that.
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Indeed…
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🙂
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Reblogged this on DENIS LEVIEUX PHOTOGRAPHE INFOGRAPHISTE.
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Thank you 🙂
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Gorgeous! So sad that the water is so low. We have had rain and more rain.
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I have never seenit quite so low… and this series of reservoirs is critical in the area.
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Reblogged this on Not Tomatoes.
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Hope you get the rain you need, and soon.
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We are going to need a lot of it…
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If people realised just how close to the bottom of the Chalice we really are … Herself is giving out some harsh lessons.
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And some fairly graphic warnings…
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