Have you noticed?
We had a good monsoon yesterday, New Orleans style rain, the kind where the sky crackles and a gut pouring of rain comes down in sheets all of a sudden. Love it. Love the rain in New Orleans – it’s one of a kind. The city has been in such a sorry state without it recently – the grass is drying up along the bayou, the Queen Palms in my yard were looking a little peaked, and my roses that I tried to kill earlier as I was spraying for rust have gotten no respite. So this morning when I walked through City Park I noticed the disappearing ferns were bright green, the plants along the banks of Bayou Metairie were standing at attention, and all in all the park was rejoicing to have been bathed in fresh rainwater.