This summer started out hot, too hot. Days of one hundred plus degree heat quickly turned the green of spring into a crispy brown tinder box. Wild flowers and creeks alike, dried up in the intense and unrelenting heat. Everyone around here agreed, it just wasn't right. It was too much too soon.
Luckily, after weeks of collective rain dancing, it appears that the familiar sight of afternoon clouds building up in the distance is back, and mother nature has once again found her rhythm.
Sometime after noon, the clouds appear, swirling at first...
... then building up, one after the other...
... drifting ever closer...
... until the crack of lighting triggers the boom of the thunder right over head.
Just in time to break the heat of the day the wind picks up and the rain moves in. Even if only for a few minutes, the brief respite if provides makes for perfect summer evenings. Yep, summer storms have made a come back, and not a moment too soon.
~Jordan
*Last time in Nature: Natural Play Spaces
