Aiden Kossow, 10, Janesville, wades in the water of Kiwanis Pond while trying net fish for fun while his grandfather Dennis Findley fished with a rod and reel from the pier on Tuesday.
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Photo By: Dan Lassiter
A golfer picks up his practice balls on dried out grass at the practice range at Blackhawk Golf Course on Tuesday.
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Jailah Gonzalez, 8, goes down a giant inflatable water slide with her sister Mariah Morales, 4, on her lap on Friday. The kids got the slide during this week's heat wave and have been keeping cool in their front yard on S. Main St. in Janesville.
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A leaf devoured by Japanese beetles rests in a parkway scorched by the recent heat wave in the 2100 block of Mole Ave. on Janesville's west side on Friday.
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Tara Shultz dangles her legs over the side of her swimming pool while lying on her back on a float and cooling off on Janesville's south side on Friday.
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The sun reflects in the hood of a GMC Sierra coated in dust and parked in the 1400 block of Blaine Ave. in Janesville on Friday.
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The temperature was still high into the evening at Rotary Gardens, but did not seem to break the 100 degree mark there all day.
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Photo By: Mark Kauzlarich
Buds on a spirea plant on Janesville's west side shrivel up and die next to ones that flower in the hot, dry weather that has settled on Janesville in the early summer.
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Sweat beads up on the face of Jeff Stettner, a Rock County Public Works screed operator/ foreman on a paver who was working with a crew replacing asphalt at the Rock County 4-H Fairgrounds on Thursday. "It's the hottest spot out there," he said of his job.
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A sign advertising a fireworks stand on West Court Street in Janesville is planted in a parkway scorched and dried out from the heat and lack of rain on Thursday.
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A jogger runs past a Rock County Public Works crew putting down hot pavement on driveways inside the Rock County 4-H Fairgrounds on Thursday.
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Jessica Sather tries to help Lacy Langron avoid some of the sun's effects with spray-on sunscreen at Lion's Pond in Janesville on Thursday.
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White-tailed deer at the Walt Lindemann Sportsman's Park feel the heat on Thursday, despite their best attempts to find shade in their enclosure.
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In many area lawns, the only green to be found is in the form of weeds. Even the weeds are struggling with the lack of moisture though.
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Photo By: Bill Olmsted
Due to reduced flow, ducks are able to gather on the spillway of the Centerway Dam in downtown Janesville.
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Photo By: Bill Olmsted
Sprinklers outside a west-side home send a spray of diamond-like drops onto a lawn on Wednesday.
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In some places, fall like accumulations of dried out leaves are building as stressed trees shed their canopies.
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Photo By: Bill Olmsted
A leaf on a corn plant curls itself into something resembling a pipe as the plant struggles with the lack of water.
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The pond south of the Monterey Dam is mostly devoid of water leaving dry, cracked soil and a growing surface covered by weeds.
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Two-year-old Sam Stevens of Janesville enjoys a nice cold vanilla Frostie Freeze in the hot afternoon sun on Wednesday. It didn't take long before all of the treat was gone, whether by eating or by melting all over.
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Photo By: Mark Kauzlarich
Boston, a labrador belonging to the Gray family of Janesville, lounges in his own personal pool in the family's backyard as a way to beat the heat. With renovations to the "human's" pool, Boston isn't allowed in anymore, but still enjoys getting wet in the hot and dry weather.
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Andy, a horse boarded at Zastoupil's Big Show Acres on Highway 14 outside Evansville, kicks up some dirt in their dry fields. With all the dry weather there is no grass for the horses to feed on and that drives costs up for owner Amy Zastoupil, who now has to feed the horses twice a day with hay.
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Photo By: Mark Kauzlarich
Cows fight for their share of the shade in a field in Porter, as temperatures climb in the early afternoon.
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Though the irrigation systems are working overtime in the fields off Highway 14 near Evansville, they can't stop the inevitiablity of some plants falling to the dry conditions.
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Ryan Hahn shields his face while adjusting the spray on a colorful sprinkler in his grandmother's front yard on Beechwood Drive in Janesville on Wednesday.
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Bob Oliver of the Janesville Parks Department wraps a chain around a dead arbor vita as he and Katie Godding pulled out dead evergreens along the trail at Monterey Park in Janesville on Wednesday. He said the dry weather has contributed to the death of a number of trees in the area.
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Roy Garcia, left, and Fredrico Garcia, finish nailing down the cap while completing a roof repair for Wurzer Builders in the 1500 block of Conde St on Wednesday. They started the job at 7 a.m. and were finished around 11 a.m. in order to beat the heat. Roy Garcia said he wore a bandana that he soaked in water to keep his head cool.
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Charlie Roherty, a groundskeeper at Blackhawk Golf Course, hand-waters the ninth green to keep it from drying out on Wednesday.
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