Thursday, July 29, 2010

Be Gone, You Foul Wench!

Ah friends, it's a drab and dreary day here on the little farm. The sun showed her face for a brief moment before being overtaken by gray clouds, laden with rain. The sky is rumbling, the wind is blowing, the trees are whipping around...and the chickens are standing right out in it. The dogs have to good sense to hide under my desk, the cat is lounging under the cover of the front porch, but the chickens...they are, quite literally, too stupid to come in out of the rain. I've never seen such a display of poor reasoning.

This rain has brought with it a whisper of cool air. Not quite a nip, but enough to make me remember brisk fall mornings and orange and gold and yellow and red. I'm ready to vanquish Summer, banish her in favor of her milder and sweeter sister, Autumn. I'm ready for wool socks and warm soups and fires and cozy blankets. I'm ready for hot coffee on a cool morning and a warm, flickering fire at night. I'm ready for Nature to don her technicolor coat and dazzle the senses.







Summer, while sweet and nurturing with her sun and warmth in the beginning, has become overzealous. I think she is enjoying too much her unrelenting sun and her dry, dry days. I think she's gotten a little maniacal, gone a wee bit mad, lost a few marbles, so to speak. The soft, fresh colors of Spring have become an overbearing wall, an impenetrable fortress of green. This year, Summer brought with her dust and and baked ground aplenty and she has withheld her nourishing rains and electrifying storms.

Alas, it's only July. We are in the thick of it and still have those dog days ahead. But, on mornings like this, we can imagine that Autumn is right around the bend and forget about Summer, if only for a few hours.

5 comments:

  1. Here in central UK we too have had months of hot, hot dry weather which has now broken. After a week of dull, dismal damp days I'm (almost) longing for the sun to shine again!

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  2. We've hit the monsoon season out west...every day comes with a 30% chance of scattered thunderstorms and slightly cooler temps...it'll be winter before you know it K and you'll be thinking, "How the heck do I get down off this mountain?"

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  3. I know, right? Right now I'm stuck inside because it's 100+ degrees everyday, in six months I'll be stuck inside because my steps,walkway, driveway, and road will be two inches thick in ice. And I'll bitch about it then too, I'm sure :)

    But, hey, if I didn't complain about the weather, I'd have nothing else to complain about ;)

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  4. Beautiful descriptive post! I loved it and felt like I wa almost there with you.

    Our summers and hot and humid, we get a lot of fabulous thunder storms in summer which I'm looking forward too.
    Enjoy the beauty that is nature!

    :)
    Kim
    www.pathtolivingsimply.blogspot.com

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  5. I loved this post....because just the other day, I said to dear hubby-I am SICK of summer.I KNOW I couldn't wait to get into the garden, but, like you-now I want cool mornings, and a warm fleecy shirt, and to actually be able to COOK AGAIN (Food, not US). I'm glad I live in a place with distinct seasons.....I truly look forward to each one. And am glad when that one is over....
    :)

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