In other news ...
Aug. 17th, 2007 07:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellarienNot that anyone's listening on a Friday night, but I need to start using my words again sometime.
The students are back. They're young, slender, tanned, loud, brightly dressed; the girls wear sundresses or sleeveless tops and tiny shorts, the boys mostly basketball gear; they travel in gaggles and packs.
The barrel cacti -- particularly the orange-flowered ones -- are going crazy with bloom, and the beavertail on the chaplaincy corner has put out its second flush of hot-pink flowers.
It's ridiculously hot and humid; I'd been successfully avoiding being here at this time of year for so long that I'd almost forgotten. Another few weeks, and the monsoon will segue into bits-of-leftover-hurricane and then into the last phase of summer, the second hot dry season that swings smoothly (but never quite as fast as one would like it to) into the crystalline light and cooler temperatures of autumn.
The students are back. They're young, slender, tanned, loud, brightly dressed; the girls wear sundresses or sleeveless tops and tiny shorts, the boys mostly basketball gear; they travel in gaggles and packs.
The barrel cacti -- particularly the orange-flowered ones -- are going crazy with bloom, and the beavertail on the chaplaincy corner has put out its second flush of hot-pink flowers.
It's ridiculously hot and humid; I'd been successfully avoiding being here at this time of year for so long that I'd almost forgotten. Another few weeks, and the monsoon will segue into bits-of-leftover-hurricane and then into the last phase of summer, the second hot dry season that swings smoothly (but never quite as fast as one would like it to) into the crystalline light and cooler temperatures of autumn.
