Its Best To Be Alert!

  One sure thing about living on a bayou, you can depend on the weather changing at the drop of a hat.  Without notice, things can go from sunshiny to dreary, from slick calm to raging winds, from peaceful to threatening.  Just this afternoon, the weather did a flip-flop.  Early in the day, the sun was shining and a cool breeze wafted across the water.  Things were most perfect.  It seemed to be an ideal day to sit on the pier with fishing pole in hand so that is just what I did.  All was well with the world or, at least, with my little world.  Then things changed.  Within a matter of minutes, the weather went downhill  to the point that I thought it might be in my best interest to get up to the Little Bayou House!

  Before I could reel in the lines and "clean up" the pier a bit, an ominous black cloud made up across the Bay.  As I hurried to gather up my belongings, I kept a weather eye on that horizon.  Things looked a bit too threatening.  I just "felt" that a waterspout would be in the making.  Sure enough, as that black cloud moved eastward, a spout did form right in the middle.  No sirens, no alarms...just rough weather.  

  After I eased my way back up the pier, I could hear thunder in the distance and feel the cool air that the rain would bring but...it never came.  The whole system moved to the east and left the area before more than a sprinkle could find its way to the garden.  A few moments later, and the sunbeams poked through the clouds and I headed fishing once again.  For twenty minutes, it looked as if a storm would pound us, then it was gone leaving nary a trace.  Crazy!