We had a big light show in the sky last night up towards the Red River, but it was too far away to hear the rumbling thunder that usually goes with it. I was sitting on the porch enjoying the night sounds when I looked off to the north and I could see the huge billowing clouds as they were backlit by one lightening strike after another. It was a little like watching an old silent movie, all that power and majesty lighting up an otherwise black sky, flickering and flickering as the lightening danced around behind the clouds. I must have watched an hour or so, until I started to nod off and decided to go to bed.
Around three this morning I heard the wind pick up outside and got up to let Daisy, my neighbor’s dog in. She was waiting at the door, tail a-wagging. As I stepped out into the morning air I could hear a gentle rain had started and was playing it’s soft song cross the metal roof. I could smell the ozone blown in on the wind from those spectacular lightening displays up north last night. The big thunderstorms up north, the cool cleansing rain, are all signs that spring is not far off. It won’t arrive too soon for me, it’s been a dark winter this year for many and I think brighter days are ahead for all of us as spring arrives. I can see the Indian paint of wildflowers waving in the wind on the meadow out from the porch already in my mind. Can’t wait.
