Delphiniums In The Rain

Day 253: While much of the rest of the country is sweltering in 90°-plus temperatures, here in the Pacific Northwest, summer lasted all of two days. Rainy Junes are not uncommon, but there is an unseasonably cool aspect to this one which inspires my furnace to come on several times each morning and a pervasive feeling of dampness which clings to clothing despite the reading on the thermostat. While east-coast friends are sipping iced tea and taking walks on sunny beaches, I'm sitting here in fleece, wondering if this will be another Year Without A Summer for the region.