Slightly Worried, Confused, Relieved, Proud

the sun shines brightly in the sky

above the mess of snow it has made

like a dog after vomiting on the carpet

storm

thunder, lightning flash
clouds so low they brush your face
summer is coming

inconstant April

inconstant April

30 to 80 and back

one last snow again?

November gales

On the sides of homes,

gales of November slap rain: 

last wrath of autumn?

(Last?) warm day in November?

if the weather

gets any more

beautiful I

will have

to weep

again with the drain flies of autumn

coldness spreads today

the drain flies of autumn swarm

I am not a fan

watching dragonflies

the cold comes

suddenly and I

have not spent

nearly enough

time watching

dragonflies from

deck hammocks to

last me through 

the long winter

good things about the rain

Good things about the rain and cooler weather this week

• regular demolition of spider web blocking my deck door 
• How many times will it take before it gives up and goes far away to more welcoming surroundings?
• Hopefully this many.
• more tiny tree frog fairies on the windows at work

Midwestern weather whiplash brought to you by the start of a new school year

Several days 

of scorchingly 

melting August 

followed 

by a week 

of November

:

this Midwestern

weather whiplash

brought to you

by the start 

of a new

school year?

Today I am grateful for (2)

Today I am grateful for

• 2 teeny tree frogs on the same window pane at midday
• 2 deer walking across the work parking lot in the cool of the evening after I got out of the gym
• 2 AM bedtime after not-enough-time with two old friends and two new
• weather too gorgeous to be believed
• 2 functioning hips to walk to the ice cream place
• 2 dollars to spend on ice cream

hoping for a rainbow

After the torrential rain,
hail, and wind gusts made me fear
for my windows
and forced me
off the road, I
was hoping
for a rainbow. 

And there it was.

other impossibilities

the weather guessers say:

0% chance of precipitation

today as I sit and watch

the impossible snow falling

praying for other impossibilities

warm enough again

Finally it is warm enough
to snow again.
Alas.

a dream so bright

the dream I woke from was so bright

it took half an hour for me to realize

it was a dark and cloudy day

Eclipse with clouds and rain

Somewhere above the clouds tonight

was an interesting eclipse I wish I'd seen:

half the moon in the shadow of the earth

and half reflecting all the sun. But it was

completely overcast, autumn cold and

drizzly, and all I could see when I looked

up was the rain and the city lights 

reflecting down off the clouds, and I

wanted to know how to show love 

to this broken person in my life, but 

I can't see past the clouds and the cold rain.

October haiku

.

rain falls on the roof
winter comes to steal the warmth
the trees bleed and rust

.

.

another good thing about working 10 hour days (aside from being employed, which is great)

A good thing about working
10-hour days is that, if it is this

hot outside, by the time you 

leave work, the temperature is 

less dreadful, and you don't 

have to overload the power grid
with your AC quite as intensely.

finally rest

.

Between the emergency 

sirens, the night is silent 

as snow falls with 

single-minded intent:

to cover everything 

and then finally 

rest.

.

snow is magic

.

I will know I am too old 

the day snow stops 

seeming magical to me.

.

not quite a snowpocalypse

branches recoil
blobs of snow plop
I watch from the window
and turn on the Christmas lights
again