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August Rain
The morning’s heavy rain ebbs and flows. There are flash flood warnings for our area, yet again, the summer rains finally challenging the drought, but also, often bringing too much water at once. Still, it seems all the earth welcomes this life sustaining wet. The piles of boxes in the house and garage are much…
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Smoke
A dark, smoke choaked, Tolkienesque day. The air quality is “Very Harmful” and getting worse so, given my asthma and post-polio, I am in the house with the air conditioning going. As happens a few times each summer, smoke from Canadian wildfires has traveled great distances to reach, and settle over us. As Canada warms…
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Now From Providence
A lovely mid-summer day, warm and not too muggy. This is a relief following last weeks raging heat. Still, the rabbits are grateful for the evening shade and the birds, mostly sparrows and robins, relish the bird bath. We finally had significant rain and the world has responded with deepening colors and happy plants. This…
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June!
A morning of sun and cloud, showers and blue sky. It’s June and purple is strewn across the landscape. Irises and a host of flowering bushes flood the world with hues of red, blue, and combinations thereof. It is a feast, brief and lush. Here on the coast most days remain chilly and damp. Yesterday…
