Dog days (of spring?)

Today was so hot in the swamp ...

A colleague in the field proclaimed that "Summer is here!"

Here's a photo point of the same cypress knees
looking into the middle of a dome during the
spring dry down and summer flood.

But because our feet were dry and the sky without a cloud ...

The heat was more accurately a tell-tale sign of spring.


The best sign it's summer is soaking wet socks.