Friday, September 05, 2014

Waiting..


 I’m awaiting the change in weather, the appearance of north winds and the drop in temperature and humidity. I will have to wait another day, until Saturday, for that to happen.  The year’s strongest slam of summer is underway, gripping my mountain in heat and humidity.  But I can wait it out.  I can last another day or so to wait for more pleasant weather, for a day when the hawks will fly and the songbirds will start to move south again.  For 24 or perhaps as long as 30 hours, I can wait.

Until then I am confined within the false fall of air conditioning, trying to avoid the humidity that turns everything and everyone to dripping water-logged shadows of our regular selves.  It will only last another day.

4 comments:

Scott said...

I haven't been out in the woods lately, Carolyn, but the birders around my preserve reported lots of warblers on a torrid Saturday morning birdwalk. Their best find (by their account): a Hooded Warbler.

Sharkbytes said...

Hang in there! I sure hate humidity.

Carolyn H said...

Scott: I haven't had warblers here yet--not that I usually see too many. I figured they weren't bothering to fly when the humidity is so high--harder for them to move then, too.

Carolyn H said...

Joan: I hate humidity, too. Gets even worse as I get older, too.