They know so much more now about
the heart we are told but the world
still seems to come one at a time
one day one year one season and here
it is spring once more with its birds
nesting in the holes in the walls
its morning finding the first time
its light pretending not to move
always beginning as it goes.
"To This May" by W.S. Merwin
May was the 15th consecutive month with above average temperatures in Seattle, 3.1 degrees above normal. Unfortunately May was also dry, with only about a half inch of rain. May ended with 16-day streak of no measurable precipitation.
If it takes a gallon of water to produce a single almond, how many gallons for one rose?
But how can you put a price on perfection like this? That is, until the water bill arrives...
For all this talk about record heat, it's been awfully gloomy and cool lately. And dry-- my least favorite weather. If it's going to be cloudy, I wish it would rain.
Anyway, the weekend should warm up into the 80's, which is complaining weather in heat-wimpy Seattle. The three-month outlook looks hot and dry for the west.
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