Monday, march 14/2016

J's shirt on the drying rack on the balcony. Wind WSW 43km/hr. Have visions of the whole apparatus taking off like some bizarre kite over the rooftops. Today (Green Monday) traditional day for kite flying but much too wild. Promised showers are spotty and the winds dry everything. A newly released study claims that the eastern Mediterranean climate is the driest it's been for 900 years and that this is a factor in the Syrian conflict, as crops have failed and rural dwellers have been forced jobless into the cities. Then in the late afternoon and evening thunder showers.