After what seemed like endless heat and humidity, we finally got some relief. Monday and Tuesday, while still painfully dry, gave us lovely cool nights and days with a reasonable 70-degree temperature.

I wonder when or if we will ever see rain again. I’m so sad for the poor plants, especially the annuals.

The beginning of the week’s cloudy skies were a relief from unrelenting sun. Then I found out there were no clouds, only smoke from Canadian wildfires. Yikes! That cannot be good.

I’m a creature of habit. I always start this column with a comment about the week’s weather.

The low humidity on Monday and Tuesday made me actually like summer. As an update on last week’s column, I saw a few more wonderful trumpet vines.

Because my hometown was located at the top of a mountain, we never experienced floods. The “big city” of Bradford, Pa. was down in the valley.