Wind

                               Winderflowers ~ Waterhouse

They are forecasting strong winds although we have not experienced any yet.  I think Scotland and the North are affected the most.  I personally do not like high winds since the hurricane of 1987 when a very heavy wooden door was ripped off its hinges and pinned me to the ground.  I was totally alone and how I found the strength to get out from under it, I do not know.  Ever since then, strong winds have made me uneasy.  I like reading poetry about the wind though and here are two of my favourites:-

Who has seen the wind?
Neither I nor you:
But when the leaves hang trembling
The wind is passing thro'

Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I:
But when the trees bow down their heads
The wind is passing by.

~Christina Rossetti

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There is a solemn wind to-night
That sings of solemn rain;
The trees that have been quiet so long
Flutter and start again.

The slender trees, the heavy trees,
The fruit trees laden and proud,
Lift up their branches to the wind
That cries to them so loud.

The little bushes and the plants
Bow to the solemn sound,
And every tiniest blade of grass
Shakes on the quiet ground.

~ Katherine Mansfield

Nothing much else to write about, all very quiet on the home front.

Tag - thanks to the wonderful Angel!