Welcome to Lake Flamingo (as we call it affectionately)! Otherwise known as the bottom of my driveway. Until yesterday, we’ve had 26 straight days of rain. Not all day, mind you, but generally beginning around 11:00 in the morning and then on and off till the wee hours of the next morning. And then the sun would come out, turn the place into a sauna, cloud up, and start all over again. We’re supposed to have 2 days in a row without rain, and of course, the temperatures will be over 90 degrees.

I have mushrooms in my lawn.

In the backyard, I also had some that looked like giant enoki mushrooms, but when I went to photograph them, I couldn’t find them again.

I shouldn’t complain. Lake Okeechobee, which is about 2 hours north of here and is the main source of South Florida’s drinking water, is still about 1-1/2 feet below normal, and we are still under mandatory water restrictions.