This Summer? Some rain... followed by days too hot to work in the yard between 9AM and 8PM... which is just fine with the vines and other weeds that are trying to cover my house, my bushes and my driveway.

39 years here, and I have never seen so many vines grow so fast.... and in early Spring, I did chop everything back.
Reminds me of a little poem...

THE BIG NASTURTIUMS
—Robert Beverly Hale

All of a sudden the big nasturtiums
Rose in the night from the ocean's bed,
Rested a while in the light of the morning,
Turning the sand dunes tiger red.

They covered the statue of Abraham Lincoln,
They climbed to the top of our church's spire.
"Grandpa! Grandpa! Come to the window!
Come to the window! Our world's on fire!"

Big nasturtiums in the High Sierras,
Big nasturtiums in the lands below;
Our trains are late and our planes have fallen,
And out in the ocean the whistles blow.

Over the fields and over the forests,
Over the living and over the dead—
"I never expected the big nasturtiums
To come in my lifetime!" Grandpa said.