Looking North

Looking North

During the seasonal changes, cold air sweeps down from the northwest and the mountains force it into collision with warmer moist air from the south. The wreck creates gusty winds and day long pelting rains. It is the kind of weather that flips hems, plasters slacks wetly to your thighs, and somehow manages to sprinkle that warm spot behind your neck making one hunch in like a tortoise and snort in exasperation.

It polishes the worn black top and in the reflecting sheen one can see the outline of the old pedestrian stones at cross streets. These huge stones and the cobbles of the 18th. Century were left as a base for successive layers of bitumen. The rain discloses their graves and lifts the oil from the asphalt making foot travel more risky and unpleasant,

The savvy pedestrian knows full well how unreliable weather forecast are in a region like this, and they keep a wary eye to the north looking during the day for signs of change or trouble. The older resident acknowledge that more in change than merely the weather has come from that direction too. Everyone is aware of what’s been wroth in more northern counties of the state and fret about the consequences of its spread, But like the weather they tacitly agree, everybody talks about it but there’s nothing that can be done to stop it.

Acrylic on gessoed panel

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