RAINY DAYS AND RAINBOWS--

I am not on the island today, and it is raining and raining

I want to be on the island- perhaps here, at Billy Goat

Hole-where on a clear blue day, except for this small spit of

sand, it is difficult to distinguish blue water from blue sky-

I LONG TO BE THERE .............

However-I just spoke by telephone with a friend on the island
who informed me that it is raining there too---it is lovely there
when storm clouds start rolling in over the Gulf of Mexico
and the sun is still shining on the water from the direction
opposite the clouds, it makes the water shine like sterling silver-

--and even tho' it is raining on the island today---

I STILL LONG TO BE THERE ............. It is even lovelier when the clouds break, and a

beautiful rainbow appears as the dark clouds lighten

and blue sky again begins peeking through-

I LONG TO BE THERE .........

Once, at BullyGoat, a HUGE rainbow appeared in the

sky, beginning over the waters of the Mississippi Sound

and arching over the island to end in the Gulf of Mexico on the

other side- I climbed up into the crow's nest to take a picture

the whole huge arc was visible, too big to capture in one picture-



THE RAINBOW BEGAN IN THE SOUND--

AND ENDED IN THE GULF OF MEXICO--
It was magical- I would imagine that only on an island or
a desert or at sea can one see such a wonderful thing as the whole unbroken arc of a rainbow--here you see it end in the Gulf of Mexico-

THE RAINBOW IS PARTLY DOUBLE HERE!


.......... I LONG TO BE THERE ...........

If I could only fly- like this beautiful gull--

-I could ride the air until I was once again on the island, l looking out my upstairs window at this beautiful view of the Mississippi sound and that lone little palm tree- it survived katrina, but the house it was planted beside did not-

I LONG TO BE THERE ...............

- I am SOOO homesick for the island ----but----very soon my 'sickness will be cured because---

NEXT WEEK I WILL BE THERE-------!

'Til next time--Love, DD