Hot And Dry

Suddenly it’s August (it was Lughnasa on Friday) and the light is a little different and I don’t remember the last time it rained. We hiked the lower canyon in Millcreek and it was so dry–you might think those yellow bits on the scrub oak are leaves starting to turn, but they’re just crispy.
A mountainside with blue sky and white puffy clouds. The scrub oak tree in the foreground is yellow and dry at the ends of the branches.

(Who else hears “hot and dry” and is immediately transported back to playing on the Apple 2 with their cousins in the 80s?)
Screenshot of an Apple 2 video game, Lemonade Stand. Primitive 8-bit graphics show a sun and a lemonade stand, with text reading, "Lemonsville weather report: hot and dry"