Images such as Lake Travis and the Pedernales River tell the story of the third worst drought in Texas history.
The chickens at Boggy Creek farms in East Austin are feeling its effects too.
 
Carol Ann Sayle is the farm's co-owner. Farming is her livelihood - twice a week her farm becomes a true farmer's market. Customers arrive to buy vegetables for their restaurants and their kitchen table.
 
In addition to the chickens, which are her only livestock, Sayle has a vegetable garden spanning five acres. The drought is a trying time for her crops.
 
"It's like their immune system gets stressed - it's like a person. They get stressed, they're not eating well, they're not drinking well, I mean people - same thing. The plants can't bring up the food from the soil if there's not some moisture in the soil."
 
To battle the drought, Sayle uses drip irrigation to keep her crops watered - but her system is working overtime.
 
Tomatoes are loaded with tomatoes, the eggplants are doing well, the green beans are performing really well, the okra's bearing, and so we're gonna keep adding the water, because that's really all they need. Just water," she says.
 
Sayle plants more crops than needed, just in case the drought reduces her harvest - which it has this year.
 
“When your plant is stressed; when your plant's immune system is down, all the insects seem to know about it. Everything seems to know about it, so they're on it - spider mites, aphids - they're all coming in to take it out kind of like doing a favor and get rid of it,” Sayle explains.
 
The drought is affecting her chickens as well.
 
"Well the eggs are great - you know - and the vegetables are great during the drought, because their flavors are really concentrated. But the chickens are like us. They don't want to eat very much because it's too hot. So they'll pay the rent in the morning - the ones that are layin'. And then they'll hang out in the cool shade, and I always water the soil for them so they can press their stomachs against that and then take it in - take the coolness in, and they just relax and take it easy," she says.
 
Sayle is optimistic her farm will get through the drought, but she - her crops - and her chickens - all hope for a good rain - soon.