Wind

There’s a strong southerly breeze at the moment. When the wind’s out of the south, we get much cooler days. The wind will veer north by the weekend and we’ll be in triple digits again. A hot, drying wind that blows topsoil across counties into the Delta.

I don’t have much of a bike commute these days but it’s enough to notice when I have a strong head or tailwind. I notice the sunflowers I planted struggling against it; the squashes are big and heavy enough now to withstand this much but who knows how much else? I’m hoping the tomato cages are sturdy enough.

The mockingbird was singing furiously into it this evening while I filled my final raised bed with soil and compost.

Tom Montag of “The Middlewesterner” often writes haikus about the wind. It must be very much a part of his corner of the world and I find myself nodding in recognition. This, for instance, his lines for July 7 :

Add nothing
to nothing –

you’ve got
the wind.