Got up to 98 yesterday, not quite so cool last night. Visited the pool for a couple hours and finally got to read for a while. Will have more pictures tomorrow.
I decided I would repost this poem I wrote about a year ago. The storm in the east and the earthquakes in the west brought it to mind.Mother Earth and Us


Grey sky above
Drizzling rain
Song birds competing
For seed and grain.

Where is the sun
Why is spring so cruel
New plants are waiting
In ground so cool.

Is the world in balance
Why do killer winds blow
Across the world
From the top to down below.

Earthquakes shaking
Tsunamis destroying
Monstrous snow storms
And heat so cloying.

Is it a cycle as some would say
Or is it the result of what we do
Polluted air
And polluted seas, each day is something new.

We bore deep holes
We slaughter our trees
We spill thick oil
Over the land and seas.

We send poison gases
To join volcanic smoke
We change our rivers to massive lakes
Compressing the earth, what damage we evoke?

We dam our rivers
So fish can’t migrate
We kill all species
And we call it fate.




Our glaciers are dying
As each city grows
Pavement now rules
Where rainwater flows

Out here on the coast
We have a spring so cool
But last winter was warm
So rain was the rule.

Beyond the mountains
Through the interior plains
The weather was fierce
Storms abounded, there were no gains.

And now back there
Extreme heat has arrived
Floods then parched lands
The fortunate will have survived.

Disease in her arteries
Our earth is sick
Body fluids drained off
‘Neath her skin so thick.

Earth has sustained us
For millions of years
Why must we destroy her
Why have we no fears?

Perhaps a burnt cinder
Or a dead rock in space
It matters naught
For the human race

When we succeed
In killing Earth
No life or oil or water left
Not even a chance for future rebirth.

Is it too late
Can we turn it around
Or shall we be that dead rock
With no life around.