Is it Over?

I was on the Kolob Road this morning and I noticed that the rabbitbrush was in full bloom. Later, as I drove through Beaver, I saw snow on the Tushars—the first of the season. Is it over? Can this spark of joy be justified? Have we endured the worst of it?

Rural Ways benefits from summer weather. We restock the freezer, harvest the herbs, stack another winter's worth of firewood. But, that doesn't mean we like it. I mean, who does? July? It could simply be removed from the calendar and we could replace it with a second October.

As I drove through the sleet of a fifty degree drizzle from Scipio to Provo, I began to wonder if we would be able to reach our work site tomorrow at 10,000 feet. What a nice predicament. Summer might be over, and snow may be in the forecast.