Speaking of flying off into the sunset...
Well, we're certainly in a hot spell. It's only in the high 80's, but the humidity is such that it seems a whole lot hotter. A big thunderstorm just blew through and even though my cats are still upset about the noise they produce, the rain was very 
The hanging plant by the window with all the curling ribbon and decorations that we put on it the year we didn't get a Christmas tree, cast their long shadows across the face of the dusty and idol television. Finally, something really good on TV!
The sky got darker and darker as I drove home and I could almost feel the pressure in the air. I felt a sense of urgency and drove home in a very focused way. I wasn't a mile from the house when the thunder cracked enough to make me jump in my car seat. I did get home before the downpour and was able to unload the house and get inside where my two cats waited for comfort and encouragement. Joy was stuck to my leg for the next hour, but the Princess had to find a hiding place under the bed. We got through it, though and got a nice amount of rain, too. Wild Sunday, today! Love :-)
School let out on Wesnesday, an odd day to release the little people, but what the heck! I suppose they already started showing up at the ocean - I'm certain they will make their appearance this weekend. It's wonderful to watch kids at the beach, learning, playing, splashing, exploring. I can't wait to get there my own self and start shooting them again!
Today was spectacular, actually. Clear air, blue sky and big puffy clouds moved swiftly through the air. Finally, the clouds gathered strength and force and started dumping rain upon our thirsty trees and ground. Unlike people hiding under tarps and coats, the squirrels and birds are out frolicking in the shower or munching down their dinner - business as usual for the wild ones in the rain.
Listening to women in the dressing room at the gym, I hear the theme again, and wonder how we ever dared to think we could think for another.
Looks like they finally figured out not to post the hidden drive sign too close to the tree. I've never seen a tree eat a sign before, so I imagine the first sign posters believed the sign was safe there. I wonder that nobody noticed the tree when it first started gobbling up the sign, specially since trees tend to do things pretty slowly. Well, we can only hope the sign-eating tree is satisfied and won't be consuming anything else for a while.
According to Healing With Whole Foods we have just entered the Between Season. It's not Spring any more, nor is Summer officially here. Eight days before the Solstice and eight days after we transition from Wood to Fire with a light diet, fresh fruits and vegetables and whole grains. I still have a lot more reading to do in the book, but this is a fine symbol of the transitional plan. Well, I thought it was, but looking at it now, nothing seems to be in focus at all. Guess I'd better dispose of this picture from the website, huh?
During this heat wave both of the girls took over my bedroom. Joy slept in the window on her blanket and Princess snuggled into my flannel sheets. Twice today I had the nerve to enter that room without asking and was greeted by glares and grunts. The good news is that they will both spend the night outside doing their wild-cat thing (or perhaps sleeping under the porch) and I will be allowed to go into my room, even sleep in my own bed without seeking permission!
In the winter there was nothing more wonderful than the hot water in the YMCA's small pool, but today when it was 96 degrees, I was delighted to get in the water and stay there until I was officially cold! I didn't even think of turning on the sauna since the sauna-car was waiting for me in the shade of a tree, but I didn't get really hot on the way home. That proves it, once you get fully cool, it lasts a good long time. Thank You God!
I don't know how these guys do it. I was positively dripping sweat yesterday sitting in a chair in the shade monitoring the barbeque. 
We had good rain today, starting in the middle of the night to make sleeping so lovely. It was cool too and that is a good thing. Tomorrow, they say, will be in the 90's and we'll all be thinking back to the chill that accompanied todays wet weather. Thank you God, for rain!
Must be butterscotch, huh? All I knew was "pretty" so I shot it. I used to eat ice cream. I remember walking every night down to a local ice cream store in LA. I know we never walked enough to burn off those calories. I suppose I'm still wearing them - no, I guess not, not 25 years later. I had some tofu ice dream chocolate peanutbutter on Tuesday - got the sugar treat out of the way for June already. Now I've made sugarless jello, pancakes & cookies. I'm still counting the dried mango and pineapple as sugarless, since none was added, but they are still pretty darn sweet. I'm so lucky I can still eat those things and lucky again that I have such fond ice cream memories. :-)
Oh, the projects we took on when we were younger. It's lovely to look at, these many years since we did all that work, and funny to see the long thin raised bed garden we're setting up for this year - 2 tomatoes, 2 peppers, herbs and lettuce. Well, the funny part is that we were never able to eat all the stuff that our three large gardens provided. That wasn't just because the squirrels would help themselves to the corn as soon as it was ready, but because we simply over did it! Hopefully we'll be able to keep up with this years little garden and since raising the bed like that means we won't have to bend over so much to harvest. The bears are happy too, they won't have to do so much work for produce they aren't the least bit interested in eating!
Knee deep? What's a knee? 
It was scary, watching them put the balloon baskets together with one inch PVC pipe and cord attached to decorative cloth as thin as tissue paper, but then to hear the roar of the flame filling that nylon cloth up with hot air... how could I go up in that thing? Obviously, it could all come apart but it seems, flimsy as it appeared to be, it was all connected and supported very well. Sure, I did watch the whole evening flight before I coughed up the courage to take my own ride the next morning. No disasters happened at any rate and flying amid the peace and noise, between the cold and flame, held up by nylon and wicker, I had the ride of my life!
