For two days straight now, the afternoon heat has given way to huge wind storms, with misting of rain.
But before the cooling of the skies, the heat creeps steadily throughout the day, building sweat on bodies and causing animals and birds to pant.
The sun beats down on the plants, the buildings, and the trees.
The lacy shadows spreading slowing on the ground allowing a repass for anything or anyone stopping in the shade.
The myriad of wildfires in the surrounding areas fill the skies with smoke, the smell of briskly burning timber coming in faintly on the wind.
Huge winds push the storms along, moving them to us from Utah, across the Uncompahgre Plateau, knocking branches down and stirring colossal twisters in the loose soil
Then the wee tiny gift of moisture arrives…causing one and all to tremble with delight and relief.
Not enough to really dampen anything, but enough to refresh the air, the mind, the body and the soul.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
You’ve given a perfect description of a hot summer day followed by some temporary relief. I wish you (and the areas with the wild fires) could get a couple of good downpours.
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Without lightening. Most of the ones around us are lightening caused. 😦
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Even the hint of rain is welcome.
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You are so right.
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Nice that you get some rain out of it no matter how little. Sounds a little monsoon like.
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July is our monsoon month. They are calling this a trickle of the monsoon.
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I love California, and I love our mild climate, but I would so love to experience a bit of normal weather once in a while. I thought that I would when I went to Oklahoma in October, but we left at the end of December, before the weather got wintry.
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It’s hot here now. 101* HOT!
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Refreshing the air, mind, body & soul is a very good thing 🙂
Beautiful photos, Linda!
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It is. Hope all you in your forest are doing okay!
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Oh Linda, those wild fires are such a Heartbreak for land and creatures aren’t they… I know some say that the land recovers and is better off afterwards – they say that in Australia after bush fires, but I can never forget all the loss of wild life… but what a happy ending to your story of the duck… she sounded so sweet…XXX
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I actually wonder if the land really does recover. Well, I know it does, but usually it’s the invasive plants that take over. The long-time ancient ones hardly ever reappear. And the animals…my heart weeps for them for you know that their deaths are hideous.
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We are to get more rain again today…every other day it rains. At least it keeps this area moist and not burning. Sure hope the fires end soon out there:(
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Me too. Afternoon showers (without lightening) would be a blessing for us. For sure in the mountains, where all the wildfires are.
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Your description of the heat is wonderful. But I think the smell of smoke and fire would be unnerving…
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It is. Scary!
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Oh I don’t know about those wind storms … eek! But the misting of rain sounds super. In saying that, I think we are in for buckets of the liquid stuff tonight 🙂
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I hope it goes across the ocean, hits California then fly’s on over to us. We are desperate here.
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