Stormy nights

Society6

Dark storms roll through quickly tonight, the beginning of a week-long visit.  I suppose they're deciding to hang around awhile, enjoy the sights and sounds of awful Dallas drivers slipping and sliding in the rain.  Only a slight smattering of precipitation has us careening all over the roads, like butter on a hot griddle, leaving rainbow streaks and tread marks in our wake.

My dears, we've rather rushed through the year, haven't we?  At the snap of your fingers, blink of an eye, it's the month of May and we're trudging toward Mother's Day and Memorial Day.  The weekends will be filled with brunching, lounging, and gossiping about You-Remember-Who and Her-Daughter-Who-Lives-In-Random-Big-City.  For once, I actually have Plans for a holiday weekend and am not flying by the seat of my pants as I tend to do, particularly as it gets warmer.  There's no more procrastination of places to go and people to see.  Okay maybe a little procrastination as I still haven't been back to Houston in two years time and keep on promising a certain somebody that I'll go visit her in Paris.  I'm conflicted, about having Plans, but maybe it's just a gut reaction to something different.

Even as time brushes by, not giving a whit who it shoves out of its path, I sit cross-legged in front a rain-streaked window when I should be sound asleep in bed, watching the rivulets of water make their squiggly trail down the glass.  The storms that have stopped over tonight are guests in my house and they've captured my fleeting fancy, for the sun will be back with its blazing gaze soon enough.


Comments

  1. I adore those kind of nights (and days). When dark gossamer lovelies blanket above and you feel that electric charge twitching about in the air. I wish we had more days like these where I live. I'm always so inspired during lashings like those and I feel like a kid again being all giddy on the inside.

    Sxx
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  2. You write so beautifully. Also, Ryon!!

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  3. beautifully written. and yes, a certain somebody is waiting!!! xoxo

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  4. Yes. Warp speed. We just realized that Cal has about two weeks of school left. YIKES. I'm glad. Summer's calling. You should go to Paris. (Virginia has less allure, I know!)

    This is beautifully written my friend. You sound restless, but content.

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  5. Was there lightning??? I used to love sitting out on my parents porch and watch summer storms roll in. First the wind, then the crazy lightning and rain. I don't want to sound like Dave Matthews, but where are you going?

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  6. I LOVE storms. We were supposed to have one the other day but it passed us, I was so bummed!

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  7. Poetic, I like it. I enjoy being under the quilt during a stormy night. That looks really dark.

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  8. you make rain thunderstorms sound so beautiful. :)

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  9. we are having quite a spring show today. earlier we had perfectly stormy weather (the cozy kind) which i was quite enjoying. now it's bright and sunny and making me fumble around for my sunglasses. but i think we might get a little bit more storm tonight before it gives way to a very warm weeks end. i think i will happily welcome both. xo

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  10. Send some rain this way, please :) What you said about butter in the pan? That's totally San Diego drivers in the rain, too.

    The rain is always my guest, and really more like my lover because I squeal with glee every time it comes into town!

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  11. Your writing is always so beautiful! Wonderful post!

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  13. I love rain storms but once you throw in lightening they lose their appeal to me. I'm glad you've made a decision on where to go! Please share. :)

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  14. Beautifully written. <3 I am totally confused it is May already. I have no idea what happened.

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  15. Well, that was entirely lovely! I guess it poured all day yesterday--but I was working in a basement. So very sad.

    With that, a happy weekend to you . . .

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  16. I love that first paragraph. Excellent writing. I know a whole lot about slippin' and sliding.... Don't tell anybody.

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  17. Girl, when a friend tells you to go to Paris to visit her, you get on that plane and you go to visit her in Paris! No conflict about it ;) xo

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  18. you always manage to paint such a picture with your words.. there is something so cleansing about rain, soothing watching it fall

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  19. I love it when you write like this. Transports me. Just transports me.

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  20. That photo is amazing. I love Society 6. What a beautifully written post. <3

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