Rain and Drought

 

Thursday evening the Little.. my clone..graduated from 8th grade. So it was an exciting and busy evening  and a chilly one. The temperature was in the 60's and the breeze off the ocean was cold!   It rained during the earlier hours and a storm was brewing all night long. You could small the salt in the air as you usually can before a big storm and the warmish air was punctuated by cold drafts.. They say it will storm around 3AM.   

Other parts of the nation are suffering extreme heat and my prayers are with them.   California, Arizona, Colorado , parts of Utah are in  grave danger friends.  The water situation is quite serious and the big dams are drying up and more so than usual. The government is allowing water to drain into the Pacific and also favoring Saudi owned farms while restricting water to American farms and people.   It's simple mismanagement added to a long serious drought.    

In Yellowstone and parts of Montana floods are causing major destruction.  Feast or famine my friends.. neither one is good.   Keep all these states in your thoughts and prayers.

I am sharing some photos as I like to do on Friday. 

" I could never in a hundred summers get tired of this."
    Susan Branch

"And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer." F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)

"In summer, the song sings itself"  William Carlos Williams

"one must maintain a little bit of summer even in the middle of winter": Henry David Thoreau

"In early June the world of  leaf and blade and flowers explode, and every sunset is different" John Steinbeck

  " I  know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year."
Edna St. Vincent Millay