hot summer
the air is thick and wet
earth barely breathing
beneath clouds that have
fallen from a purple
sky at dusk…I am overcome
by the sweetness of flowers
~kat
We’re having a heat wave. Someone asked me what’s going on with this hot weather? And I replied…global warming? But it depends on who you ask! 😉
But, seriously, it is breathtakingly hot…and not in a good, beautiful way! Here in Virginia we have the added impact of humidity. This clammy combination makes for oppressive heat. When I took a photo of my front yard this evening, you could see the moisture hanging in the air. Everything is a bit muted and cloudy.
As much as I loathe conversations that devolve into an appraisal of the weather, here we are … or rather here I am boring you with the weather! There is certainly no glimmer to be found in a heatwave, but I do appreciate those of you still reading.
I knew magnetic poetry would serve this topic well! The glimmer, if you can call it that, is the reflection tool in PicsArt that helped me express this sticky wet sensation of humidity in Virginia in swampy picture form. The photo backdrop above is not real. The actual unaltered view is below. The magic of photo editing is amazing don’t you think?
I know the world is downright wacky right now. Sometimes creating my own glimmers are all I can do to preserve my sanity (though some might say I lost that long ago! 🤣)
Exercising my creative side gives me such joy, I consider it glimmer worthy! But if you’re not buying it, there is always Mr. Bean. He’s 100 % glimmer!
I’m rambling…let me just say much love, peace, and glimmers to you, wherever you can find them…and call it a day.
~kat ✨✨✨💚💚💚✨✨✨
like mercury colliding... 
June 24th, 2025 at 11:36 am
We, too, have been experiencing a heat wave, and most days can be described as “puthery” (Puthery, from North Staffordshire, means humidity before a thunderstorm – much like the word “close” which we use to describe a weather feeling oppressive.) Since I originate from North Staffordshire, that’s why the word came to mind. Glimmers include all the baby birds around who still insist that Mum and Dad feed them.
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June 24th, 2025 at 12:13 pm
We have cowbirds here. They are horrible parents. They lay their eggs in other bird’s nests…often much smaller birds, and then leave it up to these tiny parents to rear these abandoned giant babies. This…often to the detriment of their own babies. When you mentioned baby birds I thought of that. We have quite a few cowbirds that come to our feeders in the evenings.
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June 24th, 2025 at 12:36 pm
We have a regular crowd of Sparrows, Dunnocks, Goldfinches, and Greenfinches, Blackbirds, Greattits and Bluetits, Pigeons, Collared Doves, Magpies, Jackdaws, Robins, and they have recently been pushed aside by a host of Starlings (over 30 this morning!) I need to take out a loan to feed them all.
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June 24th, 2025 at 5:05 pm
Oh gosh! You and me both!! Wear e quite a demanding hungry community here! Heaven help me if I run out!!!!
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June 24th, 2025 at 5:10 pm
Lovely Kat. It’s still hot here………… we’ve had some rain, but it hasn’t helped much really!
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June 24th, 2025 at 6:32 pm
No sign of rain here, but the forecasters promise a bit cooler in the coming days! I sure am looking forward to that! Stay safe and cool Di! ✨💚✨
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June 25th, 2025 at 3:00 pm
I’m trying Kat, but it’s turned out hot again today. 8pm and it’s 24C indoors.
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June 25th, 2025 at 4:31 pm
Same here!!! It’s brutal!
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