Tropical Storm Fay is making her way out of here, finally, though as I type this, I can hear the tapping of rain against my window pane! But, these last feeder bands are slowing and surely making their way out of South Florida.

I managed to leave the house today after being land-locked for two days. At least in my area, most of the flooded roads have gone down. I can’t, unfortunately, say this for all of the state.

However, as the sun started to peek out now and then today, I couldn’t help but notice how green everything is around me. Not that it isn’t usually green in Florida, which is one of the things I love about living here, but this is more of a bright, newly washed green, extra bright even because of the clouds that have been overhead for so long. It’s like the trees and grass are saying, “Ah, burp, thanks for the big glass of water!”

With a little bad often comes a little good, and that’s what I remembered today driving around. The ditches and retention ponds are full to the brim, but we needed the water so badly! Fay did some damaged, but she also did us a favor as well. And, my train of thought as I drove down I95 today enjoying the green and little sunlight brought me to one of my favorite Emily Dickinson poems, which I hope you enjoy as well:

I dwell in Possibility–
A fairer House than Prose–
More numerous of Windows–
Superior–for Doors–

Of Chambers as the Cedars–
Impregnable of Eye–
And for an Everlasting Roof
The Gambrels of the Sky–

Of Visitors–the fairest–
For Occupation–This–
The spreading wide my narrow Hands
To gather Paradise–

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