The author of Wintergreen remembers his first encounter with the wonders of nature as a child in the region of the Highline Canal in Colorado, and describes how

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A loud clap of thunder booms, and rattles the windows of Grandma's old farmhouse. "This is Thunder Cake baking weather," calls Grandma, as she and her granddaug

A farm family scurries for shelter from a violent thunderstorm that brings welcome relief from the heat and also an unexpected surprise.