Books and banter by W.H.Manke

I’ve heard it said that with today’s advances in knowledge and technology “the sky is the limit” and “anything is possible” for man to achieve.  At the same time we have seen unusual weather invade parts of the world against which we have no remedy.  It prompts me to ask, “Who can tame a storm and command rain or snow not to fall.  In our part  of the world it is the middle of winter.  We should see the evidence of it on the ground.  But it feels like spring.  My thermometer shows me + 10 degrees Celsius, when I should expect frost on the ground as is the reality in the picture above.  Instead what we see today is the picture below.