idle thoughts

Summer is definitely over.  We will still have some hot days ahead but the back of this brutal summer is broken.  We are finally getting some good rain.  We received 2” on Wednesday, it rained Thursday as well and on Friday and is overcast today.   It has been the long slow gentle rain that soaks in.  Even the cornfields are greening up from the kernels that dropped during harvest this year.  My few rain water collectors are full and I am kicking myself for having delayed in setting up others.  Everything is starting to lift up their leaves again, except for a few azaleas that I fear have been stressed beyond their ability to endure.  I won’t know how the maples fared until next spring.  These days of rain have also caused some little red lilies to spring up about the yard.

The hummingbirds are passing through.  There is a hummingbird bush right outside this open window where I am sitting and I can hear the whir of their wings.  A wren was investigating the garage earlier and I startled it when I walked in.  This rainy country life is making me lazy.  I brought down some art work, intermediate enlargements, to do the rest of this week at the country house and have yet to take it out of the bag.  I’ll have to do it before we head back to town on Monday.  Some of that work that has been hovering out there all August is starting to come in. 

We came down on Wednesday this week since I was out of clean underwear (and had been for several days) and had conducted all the business we needed to be in town for already.  It would help my productivity immensely to be in one place.  I schlep the computer back and forth (and I’m not talking laptop) but the printer/scanner/enlarger is another thing.  Packing up to leave the city every week is an exercise in anxiety.  Packing up and leaving the country every Monday is an exercise in reluctance.