Stars, Rainbows and Moss.

7-20-10 VERMONT: We’re a month past the summer solstice and a month closer to fall. It has turned dry, and I may have to start watering. I did start the soaker hose for the veggies today. T-storms have been predicted every day, but we see them go crashing by to the north or south, but our rain gauge stays empty.

Yesterday faced with an all-day rain, that didn’t happen here, we went to St. J, that’s St. Johnsbury for you flatlanders, and the Fairbanks Museum. It’s a Victorian Era museum, natural history, in a brick Victorian building in a town filled with Victorian houses. It has lots of taxidermy, birds and mammals, minerals, cultural exhibits, and the "Eye on the Sky" weather broadcast that’s a staple of VPR. We went to the planetarium show and weighed our selves on a scale set for moon and Martian gravities. Throw in a slice of pizza, and it was a great afternoon. And they got a lot of rain. We had an evening rainbow.

Today we hiked the nearby brook, now reduced to a trickle. You can see pix of it in the March 23, 2010 post ‘Fast Water’ when it was more prosperous. Now it is easy to rock hop down the middle from mossy block to mossy log. Tonight we had another rainbow, ho hum.

New blooms: milk weed, goose-neck loosestrife.


I say hold the bow, just the rain, please.

Lots of places to cool your weary feet.