A Sudden Alarm of Donkeys

After a month of rain, it is sunny and not blowing a gale off the water. Last week the entire island lived by the Beaufort scale as each night the telephone lines would howl and windows rattle. Power out everywhere – hydro linesman hell. Today, sunny and warm, as if it never has been anything but perfect. Ocean a sapphire blue, sparrows glorying in their surviving another day, playing and singing in the bushes.