It was supposed to rain today, with a front moving through mid-afternoon. We thought we would head up to The Windmill (a farm and craft market) to walk around and see what was new this year, and get back home before the rains came. My niece has a booth there where she is selling items that she and her husband have made, so we checked that out and came home with a little bear for out front.

We bought our lunch of chicken barbecue, and enjoyed that at a shaded picnic table with my sister. By the time we headed home, the sun was beating down, and the temperature had risen to the mid-80’s.

There was no sign of rain when we returned home, but we could feel a change in the air. As a precaution, we tied up the canopy to save it from the winds, and brought the fuschia indoors so it wouldn’t take a beating. The clouds gathered, and the air cooled a little, but the rains passed to the north of us, and it turned out to be a pretty nice day.