fire and rain

the wind!  did i forget about the wind here?

when you have a summer that unobtrusively settles itself around you, like you're half asleep and someone pulls the blankets up around your shoulders, you forget what the weather is really like.  the weather that knocks summer off like a morning alarm and you're jolted out of bed, feeling like you didn't get enough of that precious commodity, sleep, or summertime, and you find yourself in a new day, riding your bike through rain and a wind that you really feel this time might just lift you off the ground before bringing you down to meet it. and it's not that it's anything different, it's just that, well, you'd been experiencing a different season even though it didn't bring with it a hundred pounds of tomatoes or swimsuits or even an empty bottle of sunscreen.  there was a heat, consistent enough to prevent the wind that gets you wondering if perhaps your left-brained spouse can create a physics equation that will predict when your tires might be forced from the course you have set for them and at what angle you might suddenly find yourself viewing the world from.... just so you can be prepared... set your speed at something less than x when the wind is doing y.

but i made it to class unscathed, and i made it home, just going a bit slower than usual.  but the sun never really came out today and when it stopped raining, it always started back up again.




and the melancholy weather was alright in that i was bummed to say goodbye to one of the best teachers at william and henry's school.  she was transfered because the big pot of money shrunk.  truly a warm-hearted, caring soul that her new school will be lucky to have...

it was definitely an evening for a fire...

and chili and cornbread...

goodnight!