A beautiful sunny morning after too long without.

The heat wave finally broke! It's been weeks!

going all night and all day while needing neither the furnace nor the air conditioning on at any time

It's already April! March went by so fast!

 having the windows open for the first time this year!

I recently realized that, every day this summer without exception, our municipal water level was at Level 0 blue = no cause for concern. I cannot remember a previous summer where we had no dry patches with the city's water supply growing a bit low. I wasn't sure I would ever see such a thing happen, but here it is.

A perfect morning: the temperature and humidity are amazing, the breeze is light and fresh, the sun and sky are gorgeous, the trees are full and the birds are happy. I want to remember that we do get days like this here.

A dull, wet morning here is being brightened by robins, who are out there singing out regardless!

the sun

Today is the first break of bright light and blue sky we've had outside in a few weeks and it's so welcome. Thankful not only for the appearance of a lovely day, but also that whole business about how the sun makes life as we know it possible, etc.

a rainy day

Today's forecast is for rain all day, heavy at times. I've been saying for the last couple weeks that we need it — the lawns and fields have begun to look like straw. Plus our air has been full of wildfire smoke for the past week and a good rain could help clear some of that out. It's unusual for us to go so long without rain in the spring...