the great fire (hazard) of London

A few years ago London was swept by a record-breaking heatwave called the Sahara Bubble. That heatwave brought a fiery breath of 36 degrees Celsius to London, the highest temperature recorded in the city.

violent upheavals

Born and raised in the tropical islands of the Pacific equator, wonder |wander | women love our fierce booming storms. Recalling wild weather, exposed to severe forces of nature, on a flat little island with nowhere to ran or hide.

Tropical Storm Isaias © Logan Cyrus/AFP

That Grrr! feeling of Lt. Dan - defiant as he cursed the heavens, up on a matchstick mast, lost in a vast ocean in the movie Forrest Gump. Puny human against the raw elements at the height of a sea tempest.

Since this corona pandemic isolated us all indoors, weather patterns have improved significantly with the lessening of our human footprint and intervention. Not enough to make a dent in climate change since we have been way too misbehaved before we were forced to, although this could not have been timelier.

more blooms

wonder | wander | women spent Memorial Day taking photos of the last of our spring blooms in and around the old neighborhood of Edgewater, New Jersey known as The Colony.

Even for a world getting used to wild weather, May 2017 seems stuck on strange.