When I say "perfect" I mean weather that feels perfect to someone used to living in the tropics. Anyone used to April in Chicago stepping off a plane in South Florida might find the heat sudden and oppressive but for someone used to, and perhaps dreading the endless heat and humidity of August and September these days of clean crisp sunshine, dry heat and a cooling breeze makes the weather perfect.
I lived through a prolonged drought in California in the 1980s and I unabashedly loved every minute of it. Drought in Santa Cruz meant winters were short and mild, it meant motorcycle commuting was comfortable for longer and summers were hotter and less foggy. I reveled in the drought.
Drought in South Florida is not quite the same thing. Rains here are dramatic interludes in summer days and nights. Rain comes and goes and doesn't hang around, usually, as a form of endless drizzle. Rain refreshes and restores life to trees whose leaves are drooping. Rain is welcome.
Cheyennes answer to the drought is plonk herself down in the shade and rest frequently. Standing admiring the views on Royal Street I heard my dog rustle and disappear. She found dried leaves and deep shade under one of the tropical palms that seem drought resistant in the extreme where deciduous trees are dropping their leaves prematurely. 
Cheyenne's biggest annoyance at the drought is the lack of muddy pools to wallow in. Bad for her, good for me, her designated bath attendant.
I lived through a prolonged drought in California in the 1980s and I unabashedly loved every minute of it. Drought in Santa Cruz meant winters were short and mild, it meant motorcycle commuting was comfortable for longer and summers were hotter and less foggy. I reveled in the drought.Drought in South Florida is not quite the same thing. Rains here are dramatic interludes in summer days and nights. Rain comes and goes and doesn't hang around, usually, as a form of endless drizzle. Rain refreshes and restores life to trees whose leaves are drooping. Rain is welcome.Cheyennes answer to the drought is plonk herself down in the shade and rest frequently. Standing admiring the views on Royal Street I heard my dog rustle and disappear. She found dried leaves and deep shade under one of the tropical palms that seem drought resistant in the extreme where deciduous trees are dropping their leaves prematurely. 
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Dear Conc(h) :),
Having enjoyed your blog for a little while now I've come to learn your, may I say, "distaste" for Iphones and the like. Considering that, I took one of your recent photos and "Iphone'd" it with my.....Iphone. I hope you like it. It's the last post on my photo blog. I like using the iphone for photos and editing because it's idiot proof and that works well for me as I know next to nothing about Photography. The fact that someone can call or email me on the device is most annoying, however I now abstain from a landline and the phone solicitation, and save a hundred bucks a month.
cheers
I really know nothing aboyut how to mess with pictures. Yours seem astonishingly polished especially for one using a wretched iPhone.
I am an iPhone widower, my wife uses hers to do scrabble with people, and the youngsters I work with are forever texting which seems alienating to me. My phone is a morse code type text machine selecting one letter ata time and I dislike abbreviations. I am getting left behind, at long last.
It is not a shame to hold on to one's Razor after six years. We were, after all, the cutting edge when we spent that much money ($399) to buy a phone we could actually "see" when we purchased it. It still serves me well. AT&T assures me that they would gladly accelerate my account from all-inclusive $64 a month to $194 a month for an I-Phone 4. I use my phone to actually speak to people, and occasionally text.
It's just these silly little "apps" they make and sell. For .99 cents you buy an app that you can do a certain kind of editing on. Then you play with the picture in a really simple way, and voila, you have a picture that previously you could only create with a $700 Canon and other expensive software on the computer. It's entertainment for me. I like your pics the way they are. My old LG Shine phone died, and had to replace. Went with the Iphone, feeding the evil empire at Apple.
Cheers.
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