Dear list
Lets talk about the weather. What is the weather like where you are?
The weather is a way to talk about the landscape or the environment in
which you live which moves toward a landscape which is felt more then
visual description, perhaps.
Here, now, the sky is the colour of my milk and two sugar Nescafe
instant coffee... a light brown colour. I cast a brown shadow onto sun
bleached concrete and the spectrum has moved from blue to red. The green
leaves of garden plants glow darkly greener still. A strong westerly
wind is blowing in a dust storm from the dry dirt of the New South Wales
outback. There is a drought here and the flat earth is bare of
vegetation. the sky is big, very big, here, even when filled with brown
dust. A few days ago, as spring begins, the temperature rose to 41
degrees C (105 F) yet only three months prior the temperature fell to
minus five degrees C, in the mornings just before sunrise. The sun rises
up then falls down without any twilight to speak of, maybe twenty
minutes, at most. A strange burnt oil musky taste fills my mouth.
What is the weather like where you are? What's it like in Canada, USA,
UK, Northern Europe, South America, Asia, the Middle East, south eastern
Australia and wherever you may be. What's the weather like in the
classroom you teach in? In the streets you walk in? I gotta know, is it
raining? What's the rain like. A thin misty dribble or great globules
spat from angry black clouds. Is there a mist or a fog? Is there a
drought, permafrosts, earthquakes, an exploding volcano or a calm sunny
day?
...tell me please, best wishes
Chris Jones.
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