Saturday, March 28, 2009

Strange Weather. Almost Eerie. Very Beautiful.

It's been the strangest day here. All day the wind has blown with gusto. Great sudden bursts of it send the branches tossing, the back screen door opens and closes as if an invisible guest keeps going in and out. It's a noisy wind and the dance passes from oaks to magnolia to dogwoods to azaleas and back again.
Several times while weeding I looked up to make sure we weren't about to blow away. It reminds me of hurricane season, except there has been very little rain despite the pewter sky which seems to promise water and lots of it.
I suppose that north of here they are getting the rain though, and good for them. I'm sure they need it too.
I just heard a distant rumble of thunder and so perhaps we will get some more rain now.
I've spent most of the day outside but I think I'll move the Ms. Moon Show inside now. I haven't washed so much as one dish and laundry is in all stages of doneness and I need to attend to all of that. My poor house has been sadly neglected during this season when traditionally the main cleaning of the year would occur. I just can't seem to care about the dirt inside the house right now. It's the dirt outside which calls me.
But that's okay. I've had a day of doing whatever I wanted and while it rained for awhile, I watched most of a movie on TV which is something I never do, EVER, during the daytime and hardly at night, either, but it was a pretty good movie with some amazing acting by Halle Berry and Benecio del Toro, two people whose faces I hope never recieve injections of Botox because it would be a sin. Things We Lost In The Fire.
I forget what it's like to watch a movie. To just sit there and watch it. To recieve the film as it is without distraction. It was something.
And now it's time for Prairie Home Companion and I'm feeling happy about that and really, happy in general even though weather like this usually makes me as antsy as it does my dog Pearl who has been my constant shadow today. But for some reason, it has neither energized nor enervated me, it's just been an interesting thing to witness, to be out in.
Perhaps that has been my job today. To witness. The weather, a movie. My dogs. My yard and all the things in it as they have been affected by this wind, this grayness.
The windchimes sing, the birds are silent.
Different. A different type of day.
And beautiful, somehow, like Benecio del Toro's face, so unlike the pretty movie stars, so completely his own.
Yes. This day has been its own.
And I have been a witness.

11 comments:

  1. Did you hear that Benecio is going to play Moe in a 3 Stooges movie? I wonder how he's going to disguise that accent!
    Wierd weather day all around the country. Today is shaping up to be pretty much like yesterday.
    Stay warm. And your friend who commented about bamboo being a renewable resource is right - I just don't want any of it in my backyard - I can barely control my leaves, all by myself!

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  2. It is bizarre everywhere, isn't it? Yesterday I was talking about getting out my flip flops, and today I woke up to snow.
    Bamboo sounds like fun and fascinating stuff. Wish I could grow some around here.

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  3. Oh my God, MOB. I HATE the three stooges and I HATE Jim Carrey. That movie is like my worst nightmare. And Benecio is going to be in it? Oh Jeez.
    But as to bamboo- No really, it's fun to kick.

    Rachel- You should see it here today. Completely and utterly gorgeous.

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  4. Today was exceptional, by any standards! I felt like I was in some alternate reality.

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  5. Ms. Fleur- EXACTLY! Hey- you want some free tickets to come see our final performance of Later Life on Tuesday?

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  6. I'd love them! First tell me what time, so i can see if marc can watch Harley. *He's out of school for spring break.

    We saw two storks today. No kidding. They're breathtaking and huge! Black and white. At least I think they were storks. Marc called them storks. They were definitely huge aquatic loving birds of some sort. Anyway, they made me think of all the babies!

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  7. Petit Fleur- Tuesday night at seven thirty. Upstairs in the opera house.
    Storks? Really? Not egrets?

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  8. It was such an odd day weather wise. Those winds were so strong and sudden. It was so beautiful to watch everything swaying in them. I too have been neglectful of my house work recently, prefering to spend my time in the garden. Saturday was a good day to get caught up on the indoor chores.

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  9. Lady Lemon- Even with all that crazy weather, I kept finding myself outside on my knees with the weeder in my hand.

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  10. Haha! I have more than once found myself out in the yard with umbrella in hand.

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