Tête-à-Tête-Tête

I have never been one to buy into the global warming thing. I do not deny that the globe is warming I just don’t put a lot of stock in the notion that man is the driving force behind the changes in weather.

That being said I still am amazed at the weather we have been having around here. I spent a good portion of last night on my deck watching an incredibly cool wind blow very low hanging clouds across the face of the moon. It was eery. I felt like I was an actor in a Cecil B. Demille movie. The howling wind and the spooky sky combined to create an almost science fiction like feel to the weather we were experiencing.

I woke up this morning to find that a huge oak tree had blown down across my driveway sometime during the night and I had to spend a couple of hours this morning clearing a path large enough to get our cars out of the driveway. It put me about two hours behind on a Monday morning and Monday mornings are bad enough even if everything goes well.

I cannot remember ever experiencing the kind of weather we had here yesterday afteroon and last night. It feels nothing like the middle of May. I feel for the folks worldwide who are experiencing cyclones and tornados and floods and drought.

The weather rules supreme. It does what it wants to when it wants to. The wind blows all over the place and predicting it is not an exact science and sometimes I wonder if it is a science at all.

I got lucky last night. Sure I had to spend a couple of hours cleaning up a downed tree this morning but that is nothing. I could have awakened to a house with no roof or no house at all.

Is it just me or are things getting strange? The weather. Politics. The worldwide economy. The global zeitgeist. Sometimes everything seems like it is coming together to form some kind of perfect storm of biblical proportions.

It is probably just me and I try not to dwell on it because the line between sanity and insanity is a fine one indeed. Sometimes I just get the distinct feeling that something wicked this way comes.