Looking for proof of Autumn

I woke up about my usual time today, around 5:30. After clearing the decks, I headed upstairs and ended up sleeping until around 8:15. As it turned out, the electric clocks, with the alarms we depend on so much, had gone off at sometime in the middle of the night and so we were without the electronic aid we need to badly most of the time. I personally was coming off the hot part of yesterday afternoon when I was trudging around a field in Meriwether County, picking figs for Cindy.

After I took my shower and shaved, it became apparent to me that Cindy was not going to be ready any time soon, so I left for the office, arriving about an hour later than normal. I have been attempting to catch up ever since.

The heat has returned this afternoon and my air conditioning system has ben struggling to break the strain the sun has placed upon it. I guess it was the water vapor in the upper atmosphere, but the clouds that have crossed the skies these days have been magnificent lately. Yesterday afternoon, Cindy and I were noticing the clouds as we drove back from Hudson's Farms to home. A lot of the clouds seemed to have a pink cast to them and one formation looked like a calvary charge of clouds across the sky.

When I was little, I remember seeing cloud formations and imagining skyscrapers and apartment buildings of cotton, like the Navajo villages built into the buttes of New Mexico. This past week, my memories of those childish imaginings were brought to memory as I looked at the elaborate formations in the blue, blue skies.

The rain that came to us during the end of last week greened up the vegetation around us. The trees and bushes looked so alive compared to the way they were growing during the mini-drought we were having in July and early August. If we can keep this occasional rain pattern, perhaps we can have a colorful Fall when late September and October roll around.