Winds of Change at Our Little House

The only color left to my plants are two lit­tle grape tomatoes

Have I men­tioned before that it has been a long, hot summer?

Our drought finally broke on Wednesday after­noon and we received some much needed rain.

While I’m usu­ally not one to thank the thun­der Gods or embrace the dark­ness, I turned on an extra lamp in the Belle Writer’s Studio and enjoyed the sound of pelt­ing rain on the roof, glad that what veg­e­ta­tion had sur­vived the drought was get­ting a good drink.

Dale calls this the “ugly part of sum­mer,” when every­thing is brown or dying. We have trees that have already lost almost all of their leaves.

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