Sunday, April 24, 2005
Dodging The Bullet
I went out into the garden early this morning to see what the rising sun would show; April had been remarkably warm, so that foliage and flowers are two weeks ahead of normal, then late this week it became sultry and gritty, with the wind blowing harder and harder out of the southwest, winding around a huge low pressure area covering half the country, with storms boiling up in the plains and moving east; then on the back side of the low a huge pool of frigid air has poured down from the Yukon, with predicted temperatures of 26-28 degrees last night, a drop of almost 60 degrees. I covered a few special plants yesterday with pots, as the cold wind blew ragged clouds across the sky, but I just hoped for the best for the rest of the garden. During the night the north wind rumbled in the tree tops, as a clear full moon lit the landscape, and I kept an eye on the temperature, as it dropped into the 30's before I went to bed at midnight. Fortunately, the temperature bottomed out just at 32, with only light frost, so I couldn't see any damage this morning... we dodged the bullet this time; meanwhile gardens in lower Michigan are being buried by a foot of snow. Here the sun is shining with a bright blue sky; the goldfinches are flitting through the trees like little shafts of light, and all is well.
// posted by IBOY @ 8:17 AM 
