Getting antsy

I see the evidence of their industry all around the vineyard and in the dirt road out back. There must be a billion ants out there, maybe more. I read one article that speculates that there are 100 trillion of them in the world, equaling the weight of the entire human population. Heavy!

If you look closely in the center of the photo (click on it to enlarge), you can see a number of ants around one of the entrances to their colony.

There's a change in the weather coming today that should bring us some rain later on. It's amazing how dry everything is right now. There's no talk of drought, though. We're just in a little dry spell. For the time being.