Tuesday Nature Communing With Sikes Lake Sunflowers

On this second Tuesday of the 2025 version of July it was back to nearby Sikes Lake I ventured for some naturally heated HOT nature communing.

According to my phone, whilst I was at Sikes Lake, the temperature, as measured by the Fahrenheit method, was 84 degrees, with the humidity making those 84 degrees really feel like 93 degrees. There was not much wind blowing, thus not much of a wind chill factor to factor into how HOT it really felt.

Since my last visit to Sikes Lake a patch of what I am assuming to be sunflowers decided to go into blooming mode. Maybe the blooming sunflowers were there on my last visit, and I did not notice. That seems likely, as it does not seem likely that such a big bright patch of yellow would have sprouted up since a couple days ago.

We are heading into a period where day after day the temperature prediction is over 100 degrees. Am not looking forward to that.

Not much of a fan of having to retreat from the heat, or rain, to do my daily nature communing in Walmart, or some similar location, like the nearby Sikes Senter mall.

Any time I type Sikes Senter it causes me to wonder how anyone could have thought it clever to spell 'Center' with an 'S', because of the Sikes name, even though 'Senter' and 'Center' are pronounced the same in the American English version of pronouncing those words, it really makes no sense, since I do not think 'Senter' is even an actual word in American version of English...