I love to see a storm roll in.
In my opinion, the best experience is to see a storm build over the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Sanibel Island. Clouds morph in the distance, twisting … contorting … shifting colors from blue-grey to charcoal, building an internal light show with flashes of lightning. Standing on the beach you can feel the temperature drop as the winds pick up. Soon you are pelted with drops of rain flung at you horizontally. Stinging rain mixed with a grains of sand pelts you as the storm moves across the beach. I grab Mrs. Poppy’s hand and we run laughing toward shelter.
Tonight we are not on Sanibel Island but our new home in Imperial Missouri. It has been a year of chapter turnings, two house moves, moving from a vocation of many years to retirement. Pages flip, chapters turn, some things change, some things stay constant … faith and family.
It’s been weeks since we have had a decent rain here in the heartland. The ground was starting to crack, even my weeds are becoming withered. Tonight that is changing. It started with a cold front moving in, winds whipping as we struggled to lower the patio umbrella. The scent of the early autumn rain mixed with the anxious damp earth rose through the night.
Mimsy and I take a quick stroll before the rains became heavier.
The wind has died down, the rain falls gently as the sound of a locomotive sounds softly in the distance.
2020 is not over, more storms are likely to come, but faith and family will remain strong.
Peace, Poppy
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I also love a good rainstorm. When I was a kid, we’d all gather on the porch to watch–and I still like to do that, though I think it makes it sound like I grew up when that was the only entertainment. I didn’t. It was just wonderful entertainment, and with so many storms brewing of so many kinds at the moment, a good weather event is about all the excitement I need!
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