SkyWatch -- Hope and disappointment

To all my dear friends and followers

I am so very grateful for you all who call in

especially when you leave a comment

I am getting older, not as old as I still hope to become

but some things are no longer as easy as they were.

Although I immensely enjoy all your posts,

I get so tired in the evenings, I cannot find the

words to leave a fitting comment.

I wish it were not so . . .

Here is something else I quite desperately wish for

although I kno, in many parts of the world 

they are getting much too mush rain

here it has been bone dry

for so long, I hardly remember what rain

or rich, moist soil feel like

we have not had sufficient rainfall since 1995

and it looks like another dry autumn.

In a good year, my windows are covered in huge rain moths at night

this year I have only seen one!!!

Small wonder I look longingly at these cloud

and all I have been getting is this

don't take that the wrong way,

I'm not complaining,

I'll take beauty in whatever guise she comes in

and these amazingly tender sunset tones

in the Eastern sky are always a balm for my thirsty soul

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