No sooner has one dust cloud lifted – or rather,
dropped its load onto my car, my terrace and every surface in the apartment –
than another drifts in on the prevailing summer wind from Africa.
These calimas often used to be followed by rain,
which freshened the air and washed the trees – we have even hastened to park
the car outside in it – but this no longer happens.
We’ve had nothing more than
a few pathetic showers in the last two years – we need RAIN!
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And yet the wild plants manage to survive. I drive
past this fig tree several times a week and I thought it was dead. Today my
morning’s walk took me right past it – and it's struggling but alive!
If you know where to look, life is bursting out all over.
