Rain, Art

Wayfarin Journey Home   Rain, Art Gardens  June 27

In Shenandoah it rained, In Ohiopyle it rained and here at Branches of Niagara, Grand Island near Buffalo it has rained.  Wind off the Great Lake of Erie and the Niagara River spew out very dramatic clouds, huge cumulonimbus white and then turning dark heavy with rain (see photos on blogg).  The wind is blowin according to my calculations on the Beaufort Wind Scale close to near gale force…no tornadoes though like in Nebraska and Kentucky, chasing us out of both states. So what do you do when it is raining hard and you are camping? Well, first you get outside in your rainjackets and get wet. But, truthfully, it is one of the reasons we gave up tent camping when Toby was less than a year old in the cold rainy National Park of Acadia in Main, no hot showers and so cold, I kept baby Toby next to my body worried I would turn over in the night and squash him. We turned to Pop-Up camping, which worked ok unless it rained really hard and then we found that as I aged I needed an inside toilet and they needed a table to play games on, color maps, a dry over the cabin bed where the two little boys listened to their father read Lord of the Rings (my goddess, Toby was only 5 years old when we had our first cross country journey and Pat read one of the trilogy books.)

So to honor those days remembered with rains, the bright sunshine, feathers which are symbols of found fossils, shells and rocks, I made ART out of a pizza stone plate which I was going to have to throw out (who would want a greasy old plate?)-see the photos on blogg page before. It will go on the porch at Olele Point when the home is finally built.

We are in phase 1 of the build, waiting on permits to be oked.  It will take at least 3 months for that at my estimate.  Pat wants to be more optimistic, but things work very slowly in PNW. We will keep everyone posted.

I am going to publish more photos on Longwood Gardens-see next blogg.  Best Stefani