Just as on Winter’s most miserable days, Summer’s afternoon imitations of Hell send me back to this place to do some writing.

Haven’t posted anything since March! Certainly not because there’s nothing to write about. More because the past three months have been busy enough for Nana and me that writing here was pushed to the bottom of the priorities list.

In early April when we weren’t planning our trip to Texas, I was out enjoying the return of our first Spring migrants, and Nana was beginning to plan her first garden in Kelowna.

From April 24 to May 8 we were in Texas on the most fabulous birding experience of our lives. The next three weeks I spent sorting and posting (to Flickr) images from our trip. More on this later….

In June we prepared for and enjoyed two weeks with grandchildren from Japan, including our youngest, only seven, in Canada for the very first time. It’s the third time our grandchildren have made the trip over without an accompanying parent. They’re an amazing bunch, for sure!

After a rather cool and mixed-weather Spring, we’re anticipating another hot, dry summer, and hoping that, as we were spared serious flooding this year, the wildfire season will far less difficult and dangerous than 2017. Last year’s big fires began right around this time….

http://armedwithvisions.com/2012/02/09/sasha-paris-flood-and-fire/
(Used without permission)

Iron-gray clouds hang heavy across the sky
Cold rain pours, patters, pours again
Creeks become raging brown torrents
Cascading in white falls of roaring mist
The swollen lake is beige for days

Elsewhere…
Relentless drought withers plants and people alike
Fires race insatiable, unstoppable, turning all to lifeless ruin
Rivers trickle, streams and ponds are but cracked earth
Water is priceless yet pricey, a treasure to kill for
This rain cannot quench that fire
Flood here won’t water crops across mountain or sea.

Here too much
There too little
Balance is gone

Sasha Paris
Beltane 2010 Earth First!

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