Visitor

After the rains finally came again late in September, I was surprised to find this visitor clamped to the back door. He seems confused, and well he might be. At first, the summer was cold and rainy. Then it went dry and cold, and dry and hot. Not only the Crick but Panama dried up, from June to October, a record stretch. People began speculating about mass die-offs of trees. Then the rains started in the autumn, and soon we had reached something very much like the average rainfall for the period.