The Sound of Music
The HILLS are alive with the sound of music....
After being in flat Tucson for five years and now driving around St. Louis again, I am shocked about the various hills I come across on the highways or around town. I don't remember noticing them before! The fact that Tucson is flat (minus the massive, beautiful mountains) wasn't a bad thing, it was just different and something I unknowingly got used to. Now the hills of St. Louis are a sudden point of fascination for me because they seem so enormous in comparison haha.
When I was just outside the city, on a portion of the highway that I remember driving on years ago, I came to quite hilly portions, some that my car was pointing up and a 40 degree angle or so, I briefly wondered if they had moved the highway to a different location or something! You don't notice some things until you have something to compare it to, I guess.
RAY a drop of Golden Sun....
I am happy about the sun in St. Louis. I dreamed of it the entire 5 years I was in Tucson frying under the intense sun there. I always missed the soft golden light of the sunsets and the bearable light even at midday. The day after arriving here, I drove around Brentwood (part of St. Louis where my uncle lives) and suddenly realized how unusual it was that I was running errands in the middle of the day in the summer!
...Raindrops on Roses...
Yup, it rained!!!!! I bought new windshied wipers and an umbrella for the occassion, then went to Forest Park to walk around and go to The Muny. I walked through dewy GRASS, under massive trees and I had tears in my eyes I was so happy. THen I went to the Muny free seats and sat there for two hours under my umbrella. It started raining an hour before the show (The Sound of Music!) so the crowd all pulled out their umbrellas and laughed and talked as the rain fell. The show was postponed an hour, but the theatre continued to fill and I looked out on a sea of umbrellas and parkas. It was wonderful! The rain stopped, they dried the stage and the show began!
After being in flat Tucson for five years and now driving around St. Louis again, I am shocked about the various hills I come across on the highways or around town. I don't remember noticing them before! The fact that Tucson is flat (minus the massive, beautiful mountains) wasn't a bad thing, it was just different and something I unknowingly got used to. Now the hills of St. Louis are a sudden point of fascination for me because they seem so enormous in comparison haha.
When I was just outside the city, on a portion of the highway that I remember driving on years ago, I came to quite hilly portions, some that my car was pointing up and a 40 degree angle or so, I briefly wondered if they had moved the highway to a different location or something! You don't notice some things until you have something to compare it to, I guess.
RAY a drop of Golden Sun....
I am happy about the sun in St. Louis. I dreamed of it the entire 5 years I was in Tucson frying under the intense sun there. I always missed the soft golden light of the sunsets and the bearable light even at midday. The day after arriving here, I drove around Brentwood (part of St. Louis where my uncle lives) and suddenly realized how unusual it was that I was running errands in the middle of the day in the summer!
...Raindrops on Roses...
Yup, it rained!!!!! I bought new windshied wipers and an umbrella for the occassion, then went to Forest Park to walk around and go to The Muny. I walked through dewy GRASS, under massive trees and I had tears in my eyes I was so happy. THen I went to the Muny free seats and sat there for two hours under my umbrella. It started raining an hour before the show (The Sound of Music!) so the crowd all pulled out their umbrellas and laughed and talked as the rain fell. The show was postponed an hour, but the theatre continued to fill and I looked out on a sea of umbrellas and parkas. It was wonderful! The rain stopped, they dried the stage and the show began!
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