I am hesitant to say that rain has plagued central Oklahoma for the past two months. This year, we have already had more than 14" of rainfall in Edmond. Last year, we were in the throes of a world-class drought. Still, toadstools are popping up in my front yard, joined by mold, mildew and giant mosquitoes.
It's not all bad. Tonight, I saw something I've seen only once or twice, and then only in the tropics: strange lights. At dusk, the sky looked like something from a filter-crazy Adobe Photoshop artist, high on hallucigenic drugs. The colors were all violets, mauves and strange shades of blue. I took a few pics with my digital camera, but I will be surprised to see in pixels what I saw tonight. The sky, in short, was quiet spectacular, and it reminded me of my hippy days in the sixties, this time without the pot and LSD.