August rumble

It's early afternoon in a thick heat...

...half the family is sitting around at the Big House... Elmer already seems half-asleep on the floor under the glass coffee table... somehow a common napping spot...

...small cousins are soon running in and out for more metallic balloon creatures prepared by “Uncle Oxbear”... snails and teddy bears and mice and turtles and swords...

...Irish walks in wearing a boot... injuring her foot at silks class...

...hand-me-down or hand-me-across (sometimes several times over) wardrobes are passed around and examined... the great clothing exchange is a staple amongst siblings and in-laws and cousins...

...clouds building somewhere in the western sky...

...Sally walks in with a cocoon in a glass jar for Yali and Patience to “hatch”... it wiggles briefly then appears to nap...

...a few tears from cousins... mostly laughs and whacking each other – or uncles – with balloons...

...plates of cheesecake...

...home to Puck hoping for packed cheeseburgers in the same steady heat under-growling with perpetual distant thunder...