Summer Skies

Looking out the window pane...

Rotating funnel cloud over the city, Clearing after another storm
Noon hour sky, Sunset by our home last evening

August....the lawn is green and needs to be cut weekly. Most years the grass is dormant, crisp and brown by the end of June and we try to get everything watered on Thursday, the only day we are allowed to use a hose.

Severe storms, funnel clouds, local flooding, downed trees have been news features every week. They say the jet stream is running right over us instead of taking a more northerly position and freak storms ride its path.

Since June we have received four times more rain than we did in the same period of time last summer. We did have drought conditions a year ago and I could walk far into the river bed without getting my feet wet. Now the watershed is in fine shape, the reservoirs are full, lawns and gardens are growing very well, and we keep an umbrella handy at all times.

And clouds are an essential part of a spectacular sunrise or sunset.

“Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.”
Rabindranath Tagore