“Sometimes the rains may last only a few weeks in
May. After that the summer is a long blazing drying time of brilliant sun and
trade winds all night under the steady wheeling of the stars. The great piles
of vapor from the Gulf Stream, amazing cumulus clouds that soar higher than
tropic mountains from their even bases four thousand feet above the horizon,
stand in ranked and glistening splendor in those summer nights; twenty thousand
feet or more they tower tremendous, cool-pearl, frosty heights, blue-shadowed
in the blue-blazing days.” —Marjorie Stoneman Douglas, The Everglades: River of Grass
(1947)
(The image
accompanying this post, of a storm in Everglades National Park along the main
road to Flamingo, was taken in May 2010 by MathewTownsend.)
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