Yesterday, like Sunday, was miserable and rainy. Raw, even. Cold. Very un-May-like. I wonder if there’s a real word for that — un-May-like. I digress. And yet, I was strangely thrilled by the un-May-like conditions. There was something enticing about waiting for a light rail train as a light rain fell from the darkened sky,Continue reading “On the Exciting Memories”
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On a January Rain
A week and a half ago it snowed. It wasn’t much, maybe two inches. The snow lingered. It never got warm enough to well and truly melt the snow. The roads were clear. Sidewalks were clean. But on yards and open fields everywhere, snow lay on the ground like an unwelcome blanket. The snow retreated,Continue reading “On a January Rain”
On January Weather
The ninth of January shouldn’t feel like spring. Yesterday, temperatures in Charm City reached the mid-seventies. Right now, as I write this, it’s about sixty-five. It’s drizzly. It’s windy. It’s sixty-five. On January 9th. Yesterday, the grounds crew were hard at work at the office, mowing the lawn. It was odd to see guys andContinue reading “On January Weather”
On Dreariness
We’re into our third day of rain. It’s just dreary. Tuesday wasn’t terrible. Just wet. Wednesday was foggy. At one point mid-morning, looking out the windows in the office, it looked like the office was inside a cloud. And then it cleared. And then it rained. And now it’s windy and rainy and windy. AndContinue reading “On Dreariness”
On Having Seen the Rain
I’ve put some John Fogerty in the CD player this morning. Why? Because it’s raining, that’s why! It’s been so sodding dry since August it’s not amusing. The reservoir, when I went out to Eldersburg over the weekend, had fallen drastically. The Baltimore Sun showed an aerial picture of the reservoir in the paper justContinue reading “On Having Seen the Rain”
On Dry Conditions
Yesterday afternoon I drove out to Eldersburg. I needed breakfast cereal, which meant a trip to Big Lots. To reach Eldersburg I have to cross the Liberty Reservoir twice. As I crossed the first bridge — the longer of the two — I noticed something quite interesting. An island had formed in the center ofContinue reading “On Dry Conditions”
On Steamy Weather
Late last week it started to rain. It rained for several days. This was a good thing — we’ve had a bit of a drought here in Maryland this summer. The reservoir has fallen a good fifteen feet or more. The newspapers run stories about homes without water. And the temperatures fell. The middle ofContinue reading “On Steamy Weather”
On Beating the Heat
The temperature hit triple digits today. Triple digits! So I’m listening to Christmas music. I’m thinking snow. I’m thinking winter. Like yesterday. Not quite triple digits. And I wrote an advertising piece on Greatfather Winter and the Feast of Winter Veil. Thinking winter, it made me feel cooler. Nothing says cool temperatures like Fleming &Continue reading “On Beating the Heat”
On Stupid Weather
Since last night we’ve had lightning. We’ve had thunder. We’ve had more lightning. We’ve had more thunder. I called one thunderclap “rolling thunder”—it lasted for, oh, three or four minutes and rocked the world. But rain? Could we have rain to go with this rolling thunder? Of course not. :/ Must drink coffee.
On Strange Weather
Yesterday the temperature in Charm City broke eighty. But there was something odd in the five-day forecast. Snow. This morning when I left for work it was quite warm, low 60s. At lunch time I wanted to see what the weather was like and walk the neighborhood a little, so I walked down O’Donnell StreetContinue reading “On Strange Weather”