A Midwest Landscape
August rolls across the Midwest; hot, muggy, and mosquito
filled. Schools will begin in a few more
days. It always seems that when school
is back in session the summer wraps itself closely in and smothers us with its
cloying warmth. I remember back to my
days in grade school, of coming back into the classroom after recess and laying
my head on the cool surface of my wooden desktop and wanting to drift off to
sleep. When my kids were grade school age they walked home in clothes wilted by
the day’s heat and their activities. Ah,
August what do you hold in store for us?
Chandler captures the
intense August Heat in these colors
We sloth through the days
and simmer throughout the nights; waiting on a reprieve from this mind numbing
heat. Looking to the sky we hope for the relief of rain; we welcome the occasional shower and long for a quenching
downpour. Crops and plants stand patiently in the hot sun, roots reaching deep
into the earth to draw from any moisture buried there.
As August beats down on us
we find the shade, the cool, moist hollow places in which we take respite from this
month’s unrelenting and oppressive heat.
We await September and then October when autumn will arrive and the
landscape breaks into glorious shades of yellow, gold, rust, and orange that beckons to the approaching winter.
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