In the 30's

So I hear the weather has been a bit on the extreme side lately up there in the Northern Hemisphere.  Temperatures in the low 30's right?  Us too!  Celsius of course. My goodness it has been boiling over here the last few weeks!

You know when your day lilies start looking a little burnt, it's hot outside.

The canna lilies were doing great in the hot and dry.  The color of this canna represents how hot it blazed last week pretty well.  It felt like the sun was a heat lamp at the beauty salon when you walked outside.

Any outside conversation happened in the shadiest spot possible.

All of our classrooms had their air conditioning running wide open.

And finally, finally after much prayer, sweat and bottled water, it rained.  Glorious, wonderful, insistent rain. 

 

It is so beautiful now.  Everything is refreshed.  My students told me today they were glad it didn't feel like we were being boiled to soup in my music class.  They are not the only ones.