Yesterday

A picture from our afternoon/early evening walk yesterday.  I like the "painterly" sky, and I'm impressed the phone actually did a decent job of recording it.  Of course, it looks like a lot of newer houses do - too many different "features" used at the same time.  I'm not a cloud-name expert, but it seems it might have been better to just have the white ones that look brushed on, without the passing thunderstorms (those dark blue-grey masses) cluttering up the view.  But that's how the weather has been the last week or two.  If you don't like the weather, wait five minutes, it'll change. 

The light on the rocks and beach grass is a product of the sun peeking out from under one of those thunder clouds. 

The changeable weather has two results that I've observed.  One, more people get to go to the beach.  With a very limited number of parking spaces available, the number of people who can find a place to park to go to the beach is also limited.  The weather contributes by making the personnel turn over more quickly than it ordinarily would.  It's sort of like the tables at a restaurant.  When one group of people finishes eating, the next group can be seated and fed.  With the beach, one group of people gets rained on or hears thunder, and leaves quickly.  The weather gets bad for its allotted five minutes, then the sun comes out again, and a new crew takes to the beach.  We've been having three or four turns per day lately, where normally the same people who arrive in the morning don't leave until it's time for supper.

The other oddness created by the weird weather is an unseasonable flowering of our Montauk Daisies.  Normally these plants are green all summer, and only bloom once fall arrives, so we have full flowering from the end of September thru the first hard frost, late October or so.  Not this year.  We've got flowers already, and it's only June.  So while the roses are in  full bloom, the Montauks are joining them.  It will be interesting to see what happens in the fall.  Maybe we really are turning into California.