A Promise to Love
“Ingrid pointed out after breakfast when she found him staring at the cherry orchard.
Her innocent comment irritated him. It was such an obvious thing to say. Did she think he couldn’t see for himself that his trees were thirsty?
The early promise of the cherry crop had withered beneath the scorching sun of this year’s strange weather. They had not had the cool, damp spring common to Michigan. Instead, the weather they were experiencing was an aberration, as though the lovely state in wh...ich he had placed all his hopes and dreams had been picked up and placed by a giant’s hand in the middle of an area fast becoming a desert.
It was August and there had not been a drop of rain in two and a half months. They were in danger of losing the cherry trees entirely if they did not get water soon.
“I know,” he said.
“You need to give them a drink,” she said.
His annoyance increased.MoreLess
Her innocent comment irritated him. It was such an obvious thing to say. Did she think he couldn’t see for himself that his trees were thirsty?
The early promise of the cherry crop had withered beneath the scorching sun of this year’s strange weather. They had not had the cool, damp spring common to Michigan. Instead, the weather they were experiencing was an aberration, as though the lovely state in wh...ich he had placed all his hopes and dreams had been picked up and placed by a giant’s hand in the middle of an area fast becoming a desert.
It was August and there had not been a drop of rain in two and a half months. They were in danger of losing the cherry trees entirely if they did not get water soon.
“I know,” he said.
“You need to give them a drink,” she said.
His annoyance increased.MoreLess
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