We’ve been living with heat for several, several days now.
Miserable heat, the kind that hangs in the air and never really seems to cool down. (Although, I will take this heat over winter any day!)
The weather people said we might have rain yesterday…so we waited.
Then last evening I could see rain playing around us on the Uncompahgre Plateau.
Rain chutes filled the sky looking toward Montrose and over toward the Peach Valley area; still the bumblebees and the hummingbirds never exhibited anxious hovering in the flowers like they do before a storm makes it’s way to us.
We set the last set of water in the glow of the Full Thunder Moon; the air more restless than early in the evening.
Then during the night the rains came! We woke to beautiful fresh air, the ghost of the storm hanging damply on each blade and leaf.
Today is alluring, with clouds moving in again, and the promise of POSSIBLY more rain. My garden, the farm, and myself are all doing the happy dance!
Your friend on a Western Colorado Farm,
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
I’m glad you got your rain. We are ‘enjoying'(?) your heat, so hopefully some of your rain will make it this way as well.
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I think we have rain for about three days, then back to record breaking heat. Our rain should make it there…I hope!
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I saw a cloud in our sky last week. Then it left.
We never get summer storms.
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I saw the weather for the next five days and you are looking at more and more HEAT!
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We have had record temperatures throughout the country for the past two days – this evening it is unbearably hot and humid – quite unpleasant in face. There are set to be storms overnight in some places and then tomorow a little cooler. The farmer is busy getting all his hay in.
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Sounds like good hay weather!
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Every turn of the weather is welcome. Rain after long heat, sun after long rain. The joy is in the change, the newness. I’d welcome some sunshine right now, to dry things out and let me get rid of the mildewy smell in the corners of the house. Too much rain in the Dry season… everything is topsy turvy
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You are so right…too much of anything is just TOO MUCH!
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Rain feels (and smells) GREAT after a bunch of hot humid days in a row. So happy it came. We’re still waiting for some real rain around here. The few showers that came didn’t even penetrate the trees.
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Oh, gosh that’s terrible. We sometimes get rain that falls and disappears before it hits the ground because its so hot. Never good when that happens.
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It’s cool and foggy here on the California coast but hot inland. I miss the rain.
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The weather people are saying you are looking at terrible heat in California. You sure need some rain!
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Rain after such heat is always a relief and joy! Make the most of it… not doubt there is more heat to come. For me, here in Australia, a little heat would be nice. We are feeling the cold.
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I think by the weekend the extreme heat will be back. I’m enjoying this moisture.
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Your holly-hocks are so lovely. I don’t see them very much in our gardens anymore. Night rain is always good.
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They seem to have fallen out of fashion. But I love them so I grow them. Thank you
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Yea rain! Your garden is beautiful! ! Full of blooms! We are getting evening thunderstorms ~ uck.
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We had a thunder storm this afternoon,with lots of nice cooling rain.
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