Was That Thunder?

Was that thunder I just heard in the hills? And lightning? And maybe rain?

Rain for the purple salvia in the front. Russian, Mexican, and some grocery store variety my mother bought a year ago that is blooming with purple spikes in magnificent profusion.

And rain for the Purple Trailing Lantana. And the wild pink lantana that soon will rub the mailman's truck as he makes his run down the street.

And rain for the Four Nerve Daisy and the Copper Canyon Daisy and for the Ox-eye Daisies that Bill was willing to give away. And for his Penstemons, too.

And rain for the Boxcar Willie tomato dwarfed by its cage. And for the white-blooming blackberries growing on the wall. And for the little Desert Willow we just planted in the back.

Was that thunder I heard?

Alas, I think not. Tomorrow is garbage day, and someone was wheeling theirs out to the curb.

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