A week ago we had 28 hours of near constant rain from the giant storm Patricia, the biggest baddest hurricane on record that fell apart the minute it hit land. We didn't suffer any flooding here but some of the low spots by the bayous in the city did. I noticed that the river here has been about halfway up its banks all last week. Last Friday evening it started raining again and didn't stop till about noon on Saturday and while we did get some hard rain on Saturday morning, it was mostly moderate as we were on the edge of the storm. A friend who lives in a dot of a town a little south of here got 8”. This storm came with high winds though causing the trees and shrubs to thrash around for quite a while.
The
tall lanky morning glory bush both here at the house and the one over
at the shop was laying prostrate on the ground but not uprooted for
which I am thankful. I raised the branches back up, propped them up
with stakes and bricks and tamped the earth back down around its
base. Had to straighten the little banana tree up too. And pick up
the three pots of plumerias that had blown over. The ginger though
just soaked it up.
There
is nothing to be done for the tall fall blooming orange cosmos. They
are all flat on the ground and that's where they will stay.
I
usually work in the yard all day on Sundays, weather permitting which
it is not today. Far too wet to do anything out there besides dump
the water out that has collected in the various totems. If I was a
good housekeeper I would spend the day dusting and cleaning. But I'm
not so I'm not. Today I am going to fill the mold for one of the
pieces I'm working on and maybe continue work on another model that I'm doing, a piece as a gift for a friend.
You
might remember the magnolia pieces I wrote about previously. I
finished all the wax models and the flower bud and baby seed pod that
were set up for their mold has had the mold made, the wax now just a layer floating on top of the water in the pan. This will be
the first mold I have filled since last February.
So many of my plants are laying on the ground but from dryness! We got a spit last night. Just a spit. Not enough to damp down the dust.
ReplyDeleteI am shocked that I have blooms around the yard. A clematis just started a rebloom , and many others are coming back.
ReplyDeleteI love the smell of ginger and it played a role in my wedding so always brings back the memories. I must say that I am glad your weather was not terrible after all the bad news. The only time I had a flooded house was when I lived in Texas.
ReplyDeleteYes, it's good to know you weren't in the worst of the storms. It's pleasant to begin new pieces and such a slog at the very end, finishing them. My experience, at any rate.
ReplyDeleteNot much blooming here in Portland. We're back to colorless grey days for a while.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you didn't get the worst of it. Your art is so lovely.
ReplyDeleteGinger is made to live through heavy rainfall, I guess! The magnolia pieces are looking great!
ReplyDeleteI DID dust yesterday! I know - amazing. But I didn't do any other chores, so I'm still a slacker. I'm ok with that. :)
ReplyDeleteI’m always and evermore impressed with your art. There’s a weekly OPB show here about artists in Oregon, and if you will only move here, I can promise you that you will be featured. I’ve never head of a morning glory bush, and can but wonder if it’s something that must be trained instead of simply planted. My five clumps of ten-foot tall Miscanthus sinensis hasn’t fared so well either in the rains and winds of late, but then we’re having a drought so bad that some places here have had water rationing, a first in my 29-years in Oregon.
ReplyDeleteIf it keeps raining on the weekend, I could get gloomy myself. I'm a bit tired of this. But, the good news is that I'm catching up with my blog reading. I'd far rather do that than dust, especially when I can look at photos of such beautiful flowers -- yes, even the cosmos.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad your area was not flooded again. Flowers usually rebound, though it may take some time. This week all our oak leaves came down and with the predicted rain they will become a slippery mess. No complaints as long as it's not snowing....
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