A summertime thundershower roils the lower levels of the atmosphere.
Tag: summer
Wake me when summer ends.
Achilles is ready for autumn.
Glitters
On a mid-summer day, Lake Erie glitters.
Contrast
A bright white farm house offers a pleasing contrast to a hazy sky and the deep green of field and bush.
Warmth eases a seniors’ discomfort
A fine breeze and 33C heat can feel good when you are an elder statesdog.
Heat
We are enduring the longest hot spell of the season, which began Monday and will persist through the holiday weekend. Temperatures will range into the upper 20s with humidex readings in the 30s and threatening 40 (that’s temperatures in the 80s and humidex at times into the 90s. Such an extended hot spell is unusual. We aren’t used to this degree of heat lasting so long.
We will hibernate. It will be uncomfortable, even unpleasant at times. It will be much more unpleasant for outside workers, farm labourers. And for Faye, who is working 10 hours at a stretch at the canning plant. There will be no Labour Day holiday for her or the others at the plant.
It will be unpleasant, it will be rough. We may finally put the air conditioner in the window. Or we may not. Whatever we decide we will endure. Next February, we may remember this warm spell with wistfulness.
Achilles, taking his ease
On a warm summer afternoon.
Ripening
Winter wheat, ripening on a warm summer day.
Park building, Lambton County
Waiting for the summer season and its crowds of people, parties, activity. In the meantime, it marks time as winter continues.
Splash of colour
I have come down with a cold. It’s more an annoyance than anything else, but is dragging me down a bit.
As an antidote here is a reminder that mild days are ahead, and wanted to share my reminder with you. Our gaillardia in joyous bloom.
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