stormy

So..tonight I went for a walk to the river. Just as I was getting to the park,about 30 minutes from home, I noticed it starting to get a bit dark and thought a storm might be blowing in. My first clue should have been the bugs fleeing for cover but I thought I could get a few minutes at the river before it rained.

I wasn't sitting more than 2 minutes when it got really dark and quite windy. The rain started and I moved over a bit closer to where I hoped trees might shelter me. I thought it might be kind of fun to watch the storm - I didn't mind getting wet. (It was supposed to feel like 40 degrees Celsius today, don't know if it got that hot, but it was pretty warm...). Some older guys were there too. One moved down to sit beside me. He offered me a cigarette and I declined. He was asking questions and making me a little uncomfortable, but I thought I could handle it - maybe he needed to meet Jesus?

There were small branches whipping past my head. The guy beside me offered that we could go and sit in his car. This plus the debris flying past me was enough for wisdom to kick in and say "abort mission". Thankfully the lovely Wilkins porch was not too far away and I was able to get to shelter with just a few glances from curious neighbours. Apparently the wind was strong enough to collapse the main stage at Bluesfest (a big music festival in Ottawa) so it is probably good that I didn't try to wait it out.

So that's all. No moral of the story...just a random thing that happened today.