The rain is on time this morning
It’s 9ish and as if on cue this week, the sky is black and is pouring. Oh, but yesterday, when the temperature had finally dropped a little, I took my bike out to the lake for a sunset ride and oh my, I forgot how beautiful the lake can be at this hour. A regatta of boats with brightly colored spinnakers moved across the sparkling lake with the sun setting behind them. Sea birds flew up and down the shores. Couples, families, lone fishermen, and children dotted the landscape enjoying the breeze and the break from the summer heat.
I rode down to Leon C Simon bridge and passed a busload of Baptists who had gone down the lake to pray and one woman seemed to be baptizing everyone, and she waved as if the wave me over – thanks, but no thanks, I called to her as I rode by listening to Marvin Gaye sing, “Let’s Get It On.”
But this morning the grey bayou, the grey light, the grey sky – nothing but greyness greets our day.