Weather? Climate?

The drought continued long enough to get many of the sycamores to withhold leafing out.  All those bare tops are not dead, they are sacrificing themselves for neighboring trees to get the scant moisture that is available.

A couple days later it was difficult to see the trees.  What have we done that the forecast is predicting smoke?  They were a little off, it was much more than patchy.

Eventually the winds shifted and the smoke cleared out here, then it actually rained!  I was treated to good, old-fashioned misty light in Six Mile Creek in the morning.