rainy days always get me high

[gurdonark]

Two July rainy days in north Texas. The Kingdom of Heaven must be at hand. I've been more productive than [supply industrious animal metaphor here]. I've decided today that human psychology is not one of my fields of expertise--maybe THAT's why intro to psych. bored me so much in college. I did much better in literature; maybe I'll stick to reading, writing and nodding appreciatively.

The Vivendi situation seems to show that the problem in financial matters is not confined to just corporate America. It's early days yet, but the financial markets are going to be very interesting as more revelations emerge on more companies over the next few months. If restated balance sheets did not equate to immediate layoffs, I would not be as concerned for everyday folks. Unfortunately, large corporations don't just stew in their own juices--they make marinade for everyone. Small busineses, by contrast, work in relative thimbles of joy.

But today I'm more attuned to dark skies and cooler temperatures than to white hot corporate heat. I hope for good weather, so long as that means rain.

Comments

[marstokyo.livejournal.com]

I sure hope that Texas rain is coming our way! You can practically squeeze the air like a sponge but no rain.

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

We're really cool, now.....we don't get that high a humidity...not desert, not Maryland, someplace in between, but temperature relief, even at the price of a little wet, is the only way summer is livable here.

I also like the sombre tones. Flowers really pop, and there are huge fields of Texas sunflowers everywhere I drive.

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[marstokyo.livejournal.com]

Gosh, you make Texas sound positively inhabitable! ;-)

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

My part of TX is Heaven from 3/15 through 6/15, and again from 9/10 through 11/30. The other times, well, we call them purgatory.

[auntiesiannan.livejournal.com]

I got a postcard from someone with vast fields of texas bluebonnets, under a sunset sky and purple moon. I am jealous. I cannot get any sort of lupine to flourish here, and the azure sea of them in the picture was achingly beautiful; I will content myself with the blue of my russian sage and vinca, my cup-and-saucer plants and scabiosa. We have our own wildflowers; hot pink dame's rocket, queen anne's lace, and the tenacious chickory that most people call "the little blue flowers at the side of the road". Sometimes buttercups. It's all good.

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

It is all good. We get chicory and queen anne's lace here, as well as more arid sages and vinca.
We also get primrose, buttercuppy things and all sortsa other things.

Texas apparently gets more wildflowers than anywhere.
The price, though, is that there is so much flat land and too few trees in much of the state.

Still, a field of bluebonnets, a field of sunflowers, a field of Indian paintbrush, or a field of black eyed susans can make you believe there is an afterlife, and you are there.

[voodoukween.livejournal.com]

i love rain, the more the merrier i get, another reason i liked my 6 months in arkansas (it certainly was NOT because of the enormity of the bugs there)

i like the greyness and the cooling effect and mostly i like the smell during and especially after...

i like the way my skin feels like it just absorbed an extra soothing layer of moisture, the pores breathing in heaven's tears

but when i was 9 and living outside of seattle miserably as uprooted southern california kids, we cursed the rain and counted the days (there were over 300 days without sunshine in one year) of grey skies forlornly, longing to head south again like geese

the only sad thing about rain here in the city now is the amount of dirt and filth and polution that comes down with it...you would not believe how filthy a car can be after a rain

i'll take it anyway i can

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

Thanks for commenting. Yesterday and today would almost qualify as "June gloom" here.
I miss having the option of driving to north County in the gloom as I could when I lived near LA.

Arkansas (as well as WV) has rain patterns that
are not that dissimilar from WA, only a bit less intense. I loved rolling great thunderstorms and rainy rainy days.
But the BUGS and the ticks and the water mocassins....a price for everything....

but SD's weather is so lovely, and both Julian and Palomar just a short way away...I'd think you have a bit of paradise already.

[voodoukween.livejournal.com]

yes i do, i'm simply meteorologically discontent in the city where every one wants to live

i could list the times i've moved to the country then missed the ocean and moved back

i think the country side where a river runs through it is truly my heaven on earth

had that in nevada but...

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

I've never "seen" you, but I "see" you as someone who should split the year between 2 cities. I frankly think it would not be that much harder than living in SD only.

I don't know what I'm talking about, but
it's a thought...and you have already done so many things "conventional wisdom" would tell you that you could't do.

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[voodoukween.livejournal.com]

ahhhhh but if i had the money i jus might!

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

I have been reading a wonderful Baja book....wouldn't it be cool to winter in the middle of the peninsula? Can't be *that* expensive to rent a place for a month or two.

[voodoukween.livejournal.com]

i have many, amny wonderful memories of stays in baja california

i have spent much time on that peninsula, summer, winter, spring and fall. one christmas getaway was spectacular, we just put a mattress in the back of the pick up truck and slept outdoors and literally lived in our bathing suits the weather was so fine. my favorite spots were Bahia de Los Angeles (greatly changed now), Erindera, St. Quentin, Tony's Camp (the little Y thing south of Ensenada) and Puertocitos. see http://www.bajadestinations.com/maps/bajamap/bajamap.htm

i prefer the more remote "original state" areas and more and more it's all going "touristy"..

nowadays you cannot camp so freely in many places, it is greatly built up and yet it is still a delight

i have not driven further south than the 12 hours it taked to get to LA Bay

nowadays you cannot camp so freely in many places, it is greatly built up and yet it is still a delight

my older brother and his wife just spent those 4 days touring the wine country in Mexico and had a magnificent time