Rain, Rain, Go Away…Amelia Is Finally Ready to Play!

Originally Posted Jul 17, 2009 6:33am

It seems that the other Portland on the 44th parallel has carbon-copied its climate and stapled a rain-soaked missive onto my evergreen state. Our plague of slugs now count mosquitoes, and – gasp – a second-coming of black flies, in their slimy, buzzing ranks, thus causing me to throw up my hands and leave my garden to their will. Maybe, just maybe, I’ll be treated to an heirloom tomato from my own patch of earth this year, but folks, I’m not holding my breath. Oh well, there’s always the Farmer’s Market.