Stan, sweating through the days makes it harder for me to remember what is special about August. As noted, wild flowers appear differing from earlier ones. Jewel weed begins peaking, laying an orange carpet of blossoms for hummers to follow on their migration south towards Central America. Gulf Fritillary butterflies emerge signaling the arrival of spawning redfish off the Ga. coast. Pin-feathered doves alight on the powerlines surrounding sunflower and cornfields prepared for opening day. A late friend, now gone for 21 years at age 63, would tell me more than once that there would be a few unseasonably cooler days in August, reminding us that the fall is but weeks away. When he was in high school in Alabama he was state president of FFA. His dad, a county agent, was noted for introducing terracing in Alabama to control erosion with the aid of an Asian vine, kudzu.
Gil
