Virtual Residency Day Thirty-Eight, Rain

Today, it has been pouring. It never rains like that here in August. But we have more monarch butterflies than ever before.

I saw on the news that Western India is deluged with rain. Just a week ago I was deep in reflection over the dry periods in Delhi. I need to find out if it usually rains there now and how the water table is faring. The two locations- the flooding and Delhi- are about 1200 kilometres apart and the terrain looks very different.

This is the drawback of working this way: I cannot be on the ground myself. I can only ask questions and try to gather data. Whatever I can conceive or visualize as an ecological art statement for Khoj depends on secondary sources and impressions.

In Massachusetts, wetlands are dying for no known reason. On CNN there was a report on the scarcity of honeybees due to climate change and how many plants we depend upon, depend upon the scarce bees for survival. I have already mentioned, in an earlier post, how our berry crop has been affected by less pollination this year due to the unusual fog early in the summer.

The weather times, they are a changing. Our accomodations to global warming are, at best imperfect.