Message from Mother Nature

Ah BLISS!

Is this an early equinotial herald? Let's hope so. It is August 25, 2007 and this
summer has been another corker. Today I have had the wood slat blinds and the vertical
drapes open since morning, something that I haven't been able to do for months, probably
since late April.The thermometer was still just under 80 at midmorning and this afternoon a reading of 90, you have to have resided here to understand how significant this feels.

And what aural relief, to not have the constant running sound of the air/conditioner
soiling every sound from music to conversation. Silence again regains its full quality of
soothing relaxation and deliverance from our decibel laden existence.

There are periods of sunshine, but the absences are dominating and how welcome that is also
after the searing summer.

The ground shows evidence of overnite showers but they did not waken me. The air is quiet
too as though fatigued from all the effort in our stormy desert hoobabs and monsoons since
that seasonal period made the annual visit.

I am past ready for fall.

I am ready to fling open the doors and not close them until nightfall.

I am ready to not have life controlled by the temperatures.

I am ready to again be free to breakfast outside.

I am ready to replant and have a greater chance for results that will last more than three
months.

I am ready to shrug at the landscape losses of the summer and go forward.

Here I feel just as renewed in the fall, perhaps moreso, than in the spring. Like having spring happen twice.

Although this early signal may not signify an early fall, it will serve as a strong
affirmation that change always arrives.

REJOICE!


graysmoke


(P.S. - at the link below you can find out meterological singularities affecting the Arizona desert areas and familiarize yourself with what haboobs and gustnadoes are:)

http://geography.asu.edu/aztc/monsoon.html#haboob