Column by John Mattingly
Agriculture – December 2006 – Colorado Central Magazine
FROM A GRAY-GREEN SKY, a torrential rain overwhelmed the parking lot. Cars appeared to liquify into the asphalt as it became the bottom of a shimmering, black lake. The awning under which I stood began to droop from the weight of gathering water, so I stepped back under the wide soffit of the supermarket, wondering if this downpour was also falling on my crops out at the farm, or if, as usual, it was focused exclusively on the urban heat island.
