Summer Heat And Rain

The Dog And The Wolf, XI, 5.

When Evirion visits Nemeta:

"Summer weighed heavy on the land. Rainfall the day before had not eased its heat, only thickened the air. Leaves hung listless, their green dulled, beneath a stone-blue sky. New clouds were massing in the west and thunder muttered afar. Muddy smells and thin haze smoked above the river, whose purling was almost the single sound going in and out of forest shadows. Flies pestered the mount, mosquitos the man." (p. 230)

Four senses.

This is a seasonal reference that I missed in The Years After Ys  but had included much earlier in Seasons.

And I think that that concludes the blog posts for this month because I plan to return to other reading this evening. Maybe back here some time tomorrow.