Weather (yet another advantage of having an office window)

A couple of minutes ago, I noticed the sunlight suddenly lessening. I look outside, and there are clouds, real clouds, not haze. Then the wind starts blowing through the trees (mostly I can see it, but sometimes I can hear it, too). And the sky darkens as the clouds blow over, moving inexorably across the sky. It feels rather like I imagine people in Independence Day felt like as the alien ships came over the cities, darkening everything. The underside of this cloud layer is puffy, all sorts of detail visible, a study in shades of grey, with varying brightness. Sort of the inverse of the top of cloud layer seen when flying, since it's always sunny then. Gorgeous and ominous, and happy for me... the heat will soon break.
Wow.

[update 4:17
The cloud layer has smoothed out a minute or two ago, and the few drops of rain have been overtaken by a downpour, and there's been at least one round of lightning and thunder. Amazing spectacle.]
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Vegetable bounty (farm share, week 7)

The box didn't look as full this week, but there was still quite a bit in it:

1 head of green leaf lettuce
1 head of red leaf lettuce (more like a dark purplish brown, almost)
a bag of basil
a cucumber
a yellow summer squash
an onion
a handful of new potatoes
a big bunch of new baby carrots
two long thing asian eggplants, one the usual dark purple color, the other a lighter violet

Great excitement about those last two!

The weekly newsletter announced a group forming for members of the CSA, a discussion group on voluntary simplicity and choices for sustainable living. Interesting, but I'm unlikely to find the time for the eight weeks of discussion.

Porch update: yesterday I ate a bunch of tiny cherry tomatoes; they were yummy. Another of the ginger roots has shown life after many months in dirt, by sending up a shoot. I really need to do some research: are the greens edible too, or just the root? The rest of the herbs still grow happily; the oregano more so than most.