The Church in Perfect Picture-Taking Weather – by Marta LaRue

Sometimes it glowers.  Sometimes it spits.  Once in a great while it’s bright and cheerful.  For the most part, our Oysterville weather has been just plain moody this summer.  If it was a kid, I’d send it to its room or out for a long walk.  “Get over yourself,” I want to say.

But then I think about the “weather conditions” in other places — high winds, tornados, excessive rainfall, thunderstorms, river flooding, droughts.  Any place you can think of has problems far worse than ours.  Moody is definitely preferable to  extreme or violent!

Marta Ready to Photograph Oysterville in All Her Moods

Besides, I might be the only one that’s noticing.  The visitors are still arriving in droves.  Cyclists and walkers and even a horseback rider buzz and stride and clip-clop along Territory Road.   Kids attending the Oysterville Science Academy happily call out to each other in the schoolyard and now and then there is a canoe or sailboat out on the bay.  It seems to be summer as usual, no matter the weather.

And Marta says, “It’s perfect picture-taking weather!”  She is everywhere with camera in hand.  Never has our garden looked so lovely.  And never have the clouds grouped themselves around the church steeple so artistically.  Somehow, Marta and the weather are in perfect agreement about the beauty of Oysterville!