It is here! It was so nice here today, I loved it.
And it reminded me of this poem (this is just part of it, it was long)
SHADOWLESS LIKE SILENCE
I saw old Autumn in the misty morn
Stand shadowless like Silence, listening
To silence, for no lonely bird would sing
Into his hollow ear from woods forlorn,
Nor lowly hedge nor solitary thorn;--
Shaking his languid locks all dewy bright
With tangled gossamer that fell by night,
Pearling his coronet of golden corn.
Where are the songs of Summer?--With the sun,
Oping the dusky eyelids of the south,
Till shade and silence waken up as one,
And Morning sings with a warm odorous mouth.
Where are the merry birds?--Away, away,
On panting wings through the inclement skies,
Lest owls should prey
Undazzled at noonday,
And tear with horny beak their lustrous eyes.
Where are the blooms of Summer?--In the west,
Blushing their last to the last sunny hours,
When the mild Eve by sudden Night is prest
Like tearful Proserpine, snatch'd from her flow'rs
To a most gloomy breast.
Where is the pride of Summer,--the green prime,--
The many, many leaves all twinkling?--Three
On the moss'd elm; three on the naked lime
Trembling,--and one upon the old oak-tree!
Where is the Dryad's immortality?--
Gone into mournful cypress and dark yew,
Or wearing the long gloomy Winter through
In the smooth holly's green eternity.
Actually we are on our way out. The katy dids are buzzing and we are having the last heat wave of the year. We are having our county fair this week and the garden will be ready for harvesting.
We have had a super wet, cool summer this year. Very disappointing. We have all been joking about how we are getting summer this year for one day a week.
It's actually been hot for three days in a row and Sunday it will be 39 with the humidex.
I don't care much for hot weather, so until we leave the 80's, it's still going to be summer for me. And school doesn't start back up for almost three weeks.
We are in the "dog days" of summer down here. It's so hot and sticky you can just walk up to a stranger and slap them for no reason. They won't mind. It still wouldn't feel as bad as the heat. 95-100F 35-38C without a humidex (which I think would be our heat index).
it shows tomorrow temp in Celcius,red is maximum and blue is minimum temp.
We had very long rainy season this year, but it came summer just now. Hot hot hot!
This message has been edited by YajimaMakoto on Aug 14, 2009 1:58 AM
My summer is nowhere near ending. We're laeving for our only really long vacation tomorrow. We always go late in the year...less crowds and less money.
We've had only a handful of truly uncomfortable days, heat and humidity wise. Can't complain.
We are really lucky where we live.![[linked image]](http://weather.yahoo.co.jp/weather/jp/img/tomorrow_temp_zenkoku.gif)
