It isn’t always sunny in Yucatan

January 21st, 2008 • Related • Filed Under

A morning sky can be bright blue but by afternoon clouds have appeared, while you were in the market, when you weren’t looking up to notice if the sky was gray or what, and suddenly you also see that trees are blowing sideways, exposing their dark side. You say goodbye to the last light patch and watch for the weather to change. A Nor’Easter is blowing the ocean tumultuous, waves crash high on the beach at full tide, erasing even memories of glassy laughing days. Wind howls between close houses. You shut every window, close the curtains, light a candle. It need not rain because there is a constant spray of salt. Sand streams in under the cedar doors as if your house had been moved to Morocco. Waves crash persistently. Wind howls without source or soul. It is dark early, still winter. You close your eyes, walk into the wind and wait for the weather to change again.

[Slashdot] [Digg] [Reddit] [del.icio.us] [Facebook] [Technorati] [Google] [StumbleUpon]

Did You Like this Post? Here Are Some Similar Entries From the Archives:

  • Risking Peppermint Tea by Jillian (2 comments)

    A norte has been blowing for days, creating cool days and truly chilly nights; the ocean is foaming with three rows of waves and all that churning left a lot of organic debris on the beach. We found d ...
  • What’s Ike Go To Do With It? by Jillian (4 comments)

    A friggin lot, I hope. Waves are crashing furiously and the tide is super high. I'm considering growing gills. The storm appears to be just Northeast of here, hovering over the Gulf. I hope it moves a ...
  • Donde Esta Malcolm & Jillian? by Malcolm (1 comments)

    You may have noticed that we haven't posted any updates in the last couple of days. Why? Because we're taking a break from warm weather, sunshine, inexpensive lodging, and pork skin tacos in order to ...
  • The Protean Waters of Yucatan by Jillian (0 comments)

    “In ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds.” Wallace Stevens It is not an ocean for the faint of heart. It is changeable. It is not always pretty. It can be ferocious, mysterious and aggressively inter ...
  • Weather AboveGround by Jillian (2 comments)

    It's chilly here in Progreso this morning. The sky is overcast and the waves are crashing white and gray on the beach. All weekend it was like this. Cold, windy and stormy when we first wake up. By th ...

There Is 1 Response So Far. »

  1. Comment by Catalyst on 22 January 2008:

    Beautifully written.

Post a Response