On the day before Friday the 13th (June 2014) an awesome hailstorm hit Abilene. It came as crowds of people gathered on downtown streets to celebrate CALF (the Children's Art and Literature Festival). Some of the hailstones that hit downtown and the northeast portion of town were as big as softballs. Within minutes it looked as if hoodlums had walked the streets attacking cars with huge baseball bats. The damage to buildings and glass was substantial. I don't know how many birds were clobbered but we disposed of a number. Even a golf ball sized hailstone can do serious damage to a bird.
But the part that caught my attention was the yards. My neighbor has a beautiful lawn. She works hard to keep it lush. My yard's mostly weeds. I figure if you mow weeds the remainder still looks green. Because I don't have grass the impact of the hailstones was even more obvious. It looked like an army of angry golfers had pounded their clubs onto the ground over and over. It looked like a serious skin disease. I'd call it "hail pox." My pictures don't adequately capture the lesions. So I'll share a different picture taken shortly after the storm passed.
Life is a mixed bag. We have to take the bad with the good.
But the part that caught my attention was the yards. My neighbor has a beautiful lawn. She works hard to keep it lush. My yard's mostly weeds. I figure if you mow weeds the remainder still looks green. Because I don't have grass the impact of the hailstones was even more obvious. It looked like an army of angry golfers had pounded their clubs onto the ground over and over. It looked like a serious skin disease. I'd call it "hail pox." My pictures don't adequately capture the lesions. So I'll share a different picture taken shortly after the storm passed.
Life is a mixed bag. We have to take the bad with the good.
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