Summer is a coming

Here on the coast there are afternoon showers nearly every day.  This week has gone above and beyond and given torrential rainstorms that last for a while.  Naturally knocking me offline and out of power on and off.  Nevertheless it gives me great shots and some writing time. 

I've heard comments that I take a lot of sky shots and such from Facebook family and friends.  There's a reason.  One of my friend's has a son who is dying by inches.  He has a severe case of MS and is allergic to most of the medications that can give him any relief or normalcy.  But every morning his dad puts up Facebook and looks at his family and friends pages.  I take pictures many times just for Nick Jr.  I saw Nick Sr last weekend and he said that his son still enjoys them.  Jr talks in mere whispers now if at all.  Heartbreaking.

Sunset

My cousin's husband makes comments about my pictures on Facebook all the time.  Mostly about how there always seems to be telephone lines and power lines in them.  I don't edit them out with any of the programs like photoshop and such like.  He wanted to know why there are so many here.  I told him they were for hurricanes to launch through cars, houses and assorted scenery.

Hurricane season is a week away.  I've not been 'in' one yet.  They have brushed pretty dang close but not hit us directly.  One of the big ones last season took most of the beach sand and part of the end of the newly refurbished pier.  Piers get hit pretty much first and that adds to the flying debris along the coast.

Getting some writing in but never as much as I'd like.  Part of the trouble with living in such a lovely place is I tend to go outside and walk or friends visit.  Lately it's been raining but that still gave me chores.  Weeds tend to spring up a foot tall overnight.  I planted my basic veggie garden last weekend but with all the pounding rains this week not sure how well it'll go.  90 plus degrees today so that ought to weed out the good from the bad on my tomatoes.  Creole, Early Girl and Big something - beefsteak hybrid I think.  A few peppers, chives, parsley and basil round out the space with marigolds in between to keep the bugs down.  Time will tell.

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend.