A
tropical storm came through last night, bringing torrential rains that lasted
for hours, leaving the yard and driveway littered with leaf fall and puddles to
greet the morning light. The weatherman proclaimed we received nearly four
inches in our area, and I do not doubt this after such a deluge.
Like
all fast storms that race up the coast, this moved onward by early morning, leaving
a breaking sky in its wake - low-level clouds that swiftly moved by, where
upper cirrus and blue sky appeared in pockets in between. By eleven o’clock,
the sky took on a summer look, with brilliant blue and white puffs of cumulus
clouds floating in shapes overhead.
Across
the road, in low spots between the rows, puddles of water sat awaiting the
already saturated ground to discharge, and the hatchling killdeer chicks used
the plastic rows as islands for travel, looking like little cotton balls moving
swiftly up the black lining, dodging the growing lettuce which is now the size
of dinner plates.
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