Guadalupe in Flood – Zuiko 28mm 3.5 @ f8.0The experts say it is weather not climate change. The extreme year to year changes are just normal fluctuation. When a butterfly flaps its wings in China the wind blows in Texas. Maybe so but lately people have been swimming for their lives on one part of the globe and desperate for moisture in other places. Where I live the average temperature is up, up and away. A scary trend if it is one.
Just last year one reservoir in the Hill Country was seventy feet below normal water level. Last week it was full and overflowing. It’s just the weather not climate change. I’m not sure where all those Pacific islanders are going to live a few years. Closer to home I’m not sure where people in Miami and New Orleans will live either. Get ready to meet your new neighbors. They may be a little damp or perhaps very thirsty.Medina in Drought
Memorial Day Vigilance – Zuiko 28mm 3.5 @ f8.0Memorial Day in the Texas Hill country is the same as most places in the United States. We spend time remembering sacrifices made by our fellow citizens but also enjoying the day with family. We have learned maintain a certain vigilance that keeps us alert even in peaceful rural surroundings. Our way of living seems on a knife edge.
Arid Sea – Zuiko 28mm f3.5Once I felt warm moist wind from across the South China Sea on my face. It was a thick substance with the smell of salt. I lived beneath a volcano in a place that no longer exists. It is Strange when a part of your past, a place where you walked can exist only in memory.
Now I navigate an inland sea long evaporated but still visible by what it left behind. The air that blows against my face is a desiccant with the delicate aroma of desert flowers sage and mesquite. My ocean is vast with turbulent waves but only memory of moisture.
