July 1, 2012 We're Having a Heat Wave

The walkers were out this morning by 7:00 am.  A bow legged man passed by  me wiping his neck with a towel, "It's ghastly, isn't it?" he said.  By afternoon, it was 107 degrees, the hottest it has ever been here in recorded history.  And the cicadas knew it. They are here and they are blasting their song.  In the night, violent thunder erupted breaking the red hot bowl of the sky and releasing blessed cool rain with hail and fallen trees.