Consider yourself invaded. You've stolen our summer, and if you've finished with it we'd quite like it back.

Summer over ?? Umm, I'm not entirely sure we had a summer, I think I overslept one morning and that was it..finito. Possibly in late June and july, tho I was away for most of it.

It's been autumn for a couple of weeks and the first frosts have already been in scotland.

It'll be winter long before the meetup in Liverpool mid October.

keep to the Fen Causeway

still eking out the last of the 'panting dog' days here in c. italy too.

won't be long till the mud and mist will return...

...along with my afternoon cognitive faculties!

lake trasimeno is so low, the harbours are more weeds than water...

by the end of each season, comes such a visceral need for the next.

craving winter veggies, fr'instance!


~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

Just another beautiful day here in New Mexico.  The sun is shining a brilliant yellow; the sky is a wondrous turquoise blue.  Across the mountains I see ever-changing greens as the sun slants across the meadows and forests.  Every now and again a gleam of red amidst the browns and greys of the rocks bursts.  Above the Ponderosa Pine ecology a faint wisp of yellow can be seen as the cool nights have started to turn the Aspen leaves their golden brown fall color.

Sucks to be me, don't it?

:-þ

 

We have had a most unusual summer to date.  We had about two weeks of the humid, stifling hot typical mid-summer weather in late July-August, but otherwise it has been unusually mild and moist.  Gustav just passed through earlier in the week and the Hot Springs area west of Little Rock suffered lots of downed trees and loss of power to 90,000, about 70,000 of which have been restored by last night.  

The low last night was in the mid 50s F and we received  only 4.3" from Gustav, of which over 3" fell by Wednesday noon.  The weather service was predicting additional rain of more than 2" Thursday night.  On that account I left for St. Louis Wednesday afternoon so that I was past the two lane Ozark highways before that arrived.  My wife was arriving at St. Louis after three months in Tacoma and I didn't want to risk travel delay due to wash-outs.  I spent the night in West Plains, MO, (south-central MO,) from where there are mostly 3 or 4 lane roads to St. Louis.  Most of southern Missouri set one day rainfall records either Wednesday or Thursday, but my trip was without incident, except for replacing the tires in St. Louis.  I had started to get tread separation on the front left about 25 miles out of St. Louis and they were due for replacement.

Fortunately, the rainfall was not sufficient to require large scale releases from the two local resevoirs, both of which remain above "power pool" levels and within a couple of feet of maximum.  Good news for the folks down stream.  The lawn has remained green throughout the summer.  I watered parts of it once for about one hour the entire summer.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

Now it's official: new 6 September record of 36.7°C near the Serbian border, 34.3°C in Budapest. Tomorrow's records shall fall, too.

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}