2019 - Day 252/113 - Monday...Belle Epoque...

I hope this sage (and the other sage that is blooming in the back) are not lying to me like they did the last time. I checked with the Googles, and there is no mention that it is supposed to rain when the sage is blooming. That is what I have always heard, and that is what a lot of people in this area believe. I never heard that until I moved to Texas, an it has been a pretty good indicator of reain to come, but lately it has not been really reliable. The 'cold' front has come through, it is pretty darned windy outside, and it is supposed to lower our temperatures into the high 90s instead of the low 100s. We have had about 45 days with temperatures at or above 100 degrees, and we are ready for some coolness. Problem: with the 'front,' the humidity is supposed to go up, making it feel hotter, so I do not see any 'win' in the near future.

Belle Epoque -- Noun. a period of high artistic or cultural development; especially  such a period in France around the end of the 19th century. "I grew up in Beirut during its belle epoque, the late 1950s and early 1960s." Anissa Helou, Gourmet, June, 2002

Did You Know? In the years before World War I, France experienced a period of economic growth that produced a wealth of artistic and cultural developments. That era has been described as excessive, glittering, gaudy, and extravagant, but the tumultuous days of war that followed it inspired the French to call that productive period belle epoque-literally, "the beautiful age." By the mid-1950s, the term belle epoque had found its way into English, where it came to be used to refer not only to the glory days of the late 19th-century France, but to any similarly luxurious period. It is now used to more elegantly convey the sentiments of another nostalgic expression, "the good old days."