Prairie Light and Wind

Posted on Tuesday 15 August 2006 at 03:14

Well, with all the pickling kerfuffle, I'm just pooched. I want to take some time to just share with you the place where I live - something I haven't taken time to soak up lately.

We were away for a wedding on the weekend, and came home to find we'd gotten fully an inch of rain. Suddenly, the year seemed beautiful. The sunflowers, so dry they'd cracked the ground in their desperate suctioning, towered to twelve feet, opening victory blooms to celebrate the bit of renewal given them. The corn began to fill.

Late Sunday night, as the pickling was beginning, Dave and I ran outside under threatening clouds and darkness. We hurried over the lane's small hill to gather dill-heads. The cloud above broke open, and we hid among our garden giants, their yellow blooms smiling down at us.

How many skies I've missed sharing with you in all my summer rushing! Let's do that for the next week. In fact, I'm opening up a special photo category for my skies. I have things dating back to the end of June I want to show you.

On June 30th, we saw tornadoes touch down just north of Brandon. One was very near to the road we'd taken into the city just a few minutes before. It was a wild, wild day. People were wading up to their knees in the Superstore parking lot, and the streets were generally swamped.

But the evening had its own, better kind of magic. We stood beneath fire in the last sky of the day.

On July 20th, we were treated to more fire as dark giants tracked across the evening sky:

And, just wait till I get the red rain uploaded. I've never seen anything quite like it....

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Posted by Darcy on Saturday 19 August 2006 at 09:02 - Link

Hi Cat,
Love these photos and have been waiting to see the red rain!
Darcy