But the Northwest is also beautiful this time of year, before all the rain and wind strip the deciduous trees of their leaves and the evergreens of their cast off needles and weak limbs. Here's a picture taken yesterday (by a friend of a friend) of some of the trees around Green Lake in Seattle. See how lucky we are to live in such a spectacular place?
On the downside, it's getting dark about 4:47 and the sun comes up late...in a few days it will be dark by 4:30 and Ray will go to work in the dark and come home in the dark. Just before Christmas we'll hit the longest night of the year. In the dark, wind, and rain we begin to understand why the ancient peoples thought the sun had weakened and the moon was taking over or that the land itself had died.
Little Rainy ramps up with a big storm rolling in tomorrow--winds and rain are on the way. It's not the first big storm and it surely isn't the last of the season either. But it won't be as bad as the Big Rainy and the Big Storms. Although we have had some enormous storms in November, I don't think this is it. Those come later in November when Big Rainy sets in.
In the meantime, Autumn is glorious!
Copyright 2009. All rights reserved.
2 comments:
Glorious indeed. For now. After all, it Rains All The Time out there. Nonetheless, it's beautiful there now and you'd better enjoy it!
We too are forecast to have a stunning weekend. it will give me an opportunity to wash and wax the bike prior to being put to bed for the winter. It's a bittersweet time of year.
It seems that you may indeed be feeling better as witnessed by your being flush with prose and rhyme. At least you are able to raise your head above the keyboard and that's a good thing.
Oh, yes, I'm feeling much better! It's the wonders of antibiotics and time. I'm getting back to life again.
But alas, only partly sunny with showers this weekend. We may have to wash bikes in the rain.
Post a Comment