Photos of a Sunburnt Suburbia

[kerravonsen]

I was putting the trash out and the deadness of my lawn (not to mention the deadness of my ivy) caught my eye and I thought I'd take a photo. But before I actually took any photos, I got chatting with a neighbour and it was dim-dark by the time we were done, so I had to use the flash.

	Dead Grass The deadness of the grass in my lawn. Those green bits aren't grass, they're weeds. The branch you can see at the top is the branch that fell off the silky-oak tree in the high hot winds the day before (which was the hottest day on record).
	Dead Ivy The wall near my front door is covered with ivy; normally it is a wall of green and white (one of the varieties of ivy is parti-coloured green and white). After two heatwaves in a row, the poor thing is mostly dead. I've been living in this house for ten years, and the ivy has never been affected like this before: ivy is tough.

Comments

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

We have a little more grass than you, but not much (and a quarter-acre corner block to spread it in). It doesn't get much watering, since we prefer to keep that for the herbs and small vege patch, but I try to siphon off grey water when I can (we are planning a tank)

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

My dear friends there, this is really horrible, I have seen the latest news from Victoria and the flaming hell, and read about those victims and all...
I hope you are safe. These picures speak volumes!

[wneleh.livejournal.com]

Wow.

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

I thought the only thing that could kill Ivy was industrial strength weed killer, *that* gives me the idea of how bad the drought is down under like no ammount of words could.

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

Those plants look cooked. From the news Victoria is having a very bad time.

[shoebox2.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. I sure hope the people and animals are in better shape...

[kerravonsen]

The people, yes; the animals, probably not. The neighbour I was talking to said that in heatwave #1, he saw a lorikeet fall out of a tree from the heat; I know whereof what he spoke, because I'd seen the corpse of that very lorikeet by the side of the road.

The animals always have to fend for themselves.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I thought our grass was getting brown, but wow.

[kalinda001.livejournal.com]

Oh dear.