Suburban Study (Twilight), 2008

I can't believe the weather we've been having over the past few days. Glorious. There have been the most spectacular cloud formations, alternating with these intense showers that race through in fifteen minutes, then the sun breaks out again. (Of course I've taken photographs & will subject you to them.) Must be a Canadian air mass moving through because it's also astonishingly clear & cool for Back East; it's rare to need sweaters & light coats around here at this time of year. Everything seems to be closer than it actually is & flattened, as if seen through a lens. This is how I imagine it to be in Ireland, in a Molly Keane novel. I could easily get used to this but our hot, humid, mosquito-laden summer is lurking out there.

Somewhere in the Meadowlands ~ not quite malarial but full of hazy ozone & West Nile virus...