Word of the Week – Arid

This week’s, Word of the Week is Arid finds myself with a bit of a revelation! I started combing through images and could not really find anything my brain considered arid. So I decided to look it up

1. 1.

   (of land or a climate) having little or no rain; too dry or barren to support vegetation.

   “the arid plains north of Cape Town”

   synonyms:

   dry, dried up, waterless, as dry as a bone, moistureless, parched,scorched, baked, thirsty; More

2. 2.

   lacking in interest, excitement, or meaning.

   “his arid years in suburbia”

   synonyms:

   dreary, dull, drab, dry, sterile, banal, colourless, monochrome,unstimulating, uninspiring, flat, boring, uninteresting, monotonous,lifeless, tedious, vapid, jejune, soul-destroying “this town has an arid, empty feel”

Now I lived in a large, parched mostly red and brown country, yes? No! I love water, I am surrounded by water, my gardens, the places I visit, where I travel too……..they are all water based. I don’t live by the ocean (in fact over 40kms away), but I love to visit. I do not live remotely anywhere near anything particularly considered arid / desert areas. In saying that in Summer it gets pretty damn dry and very little water. Below are a few shots of dry, barren emptiness, with baked earth and summer heat beating down.

Rock Wallaby

So in one way I feel I am a bit of a let down this week, but on the other hand to be blessed by being surrounded with water, life giving, beautiful water.

– Julz