Last week, we had a lightning-quick torrential downpour that turned this lettuce into soup.
View through Topaz's favorite window at Topaz's favorite lettuce-filled window box.
Today, storms passed to the north and south of us, but not here, where temperatures in the nineties were complimented by nearly 100% humidity.
All day, I’ve looked skyward and hoped for gazpacho.
Poor Impulse Control 
We went out of town for five days and my nephew house-sat during that time. The cat survived his care but the basil may be a goner. Two months of careful herbal work gone in five days. Also, the chipmunks got at teh parsley.
Allllllllviiiiiiiin!!!!!!!