Went to the Woods, the SW Gate, at 6 pm with a saw to clear the tangle of the dead cedar and the greenbrier blocking the West Dune trail. 91F and maximum humidity. The smells in the woods were of rot.. and not the most pleasant. Just completed the second wettest July on record for Norman, about 10 inches of rainfall. The floods in the W and SW corner of the Woods had largely cleared, with the warmth of the past week; but there are still some standing pools in scattered low places through the Woods. Warmth and water.. more than tropical. It is such a contrast to summers of the past few years.
The Main SW trail was largely dried near the Grandfather cottonwood; but the soil was heavy damp and remnant small pools were there. Still very few insects.. a few more mosquitoes. Here the first week of August I find myself saying the diversity of insects will be back, won't they?
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