What is it with the horse chestnut trees? The leaves look all burned up and diseased at this time of the year. Is this natural? Or is this the result of the Horse Chestnut Leaf Miner (Cameraria ohridella)? I've noticed this phenomenon for years but the affected trees survive. Even if natural it is not a welcome sight.
While other trees are still green and hearty we are given a foretaste of fall from Æsculus hippocastanum. 
I prefer to remember it flaunting the spring candelabra of blossoms.
Work has finally resumed after the June 2nd emergency
The white plastic material must be the tanks they were trying to locate and remove. 
Please don't take the cute little office!
Rubbish goes into the trailer
... is open?
Two powerful machines working at the same time
I wouldn't want his job, sitting up there in harm's way
Ha-ha, coming to get you!
Lining the ramp at the Library are these small red roses that bloom all summer long. I'll have some in my garden some day. They're gorgeous.
Wish I knew their name
Red bee balm seen on our July 2nd hike through Avalon Preserve.The tall yellow flowers are coreopsis. This preserve is semi-wild and I'm sure both of these plants were introduced.
On Sunday afternoon 7/26 about 5:00 I was heading for the beach and surprise-surprise found the road was flooded with two huge puddles at the curve by the beach club. This is not unusual at high tide but I've never seen it this deep before. Ah, what a photo op! 
This is the first puddle. Many people, including yours truly, drove through it, turned around, drove through it the other way and left. I parked elsewhere and walked back with my camera.
This is one of the surprised citizens who came from the beach and encountered the flood but made it through. The flooding was sudden.
Some people didn't even slow down
but others stopped to think about it.
Why did I take so many pictures? Couldn't help it.
Glug-glug-glug, where did he go?
The SUVs barrelled through confidently 
and one approaching Jeep full of kids even speeded up, yelling "whoopie".
