Solstice

 We’ve had a series of storms rolling in from the west. I had to work to cut the grass between storms. The grass was wet and clogged the rains. It was slow going.

We had more than 4 inches of rain in two weeks.

When we first came to Georgia from Texas, that’s what I saw: the almost unbelievably lush growth of the forest made possible by so much water. The average rainfall at our old place was about 25 inches. In Stone Mountain, it’s about 50.

When we arrived, it seemed as if we’d moved into a rainforest.

I’m now getting a sense of how the early settlers must have seen Georgia. I’m told that a lot of the ordinary folks who came were agricultural workers from East Anglia, fleeing economic hardship. The average rainfall in that part of the world is about 25 inches.