A quadrille for the dverse prompt—rain.
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Summer rain falls
in tepid veils
a sprinkler to douse sun’s fire
and moisten the toad’s dusty back.
Summer rain hangs
on ripe grass stalks
and runs through dangling catkins
of perfumed acacia blossom.
Summer.
Rain.
Green as the ocean
and kelp fronds waving.
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Beautiful, so discriptive 💕
Thank you, Willow 🙂
I love how you describe the lightness of that summer rain… I feel a lot for that dry toad. May it be wet.
Husband found one today just before the storm broke. It had set up home in the tree stump he was preparing to pull out. We relocated the toad beneath a flowering shrub.
A real toad in a real garden…
I don’t frequent the imaginary kind. Don’t much care for the police state atmosphere. I much prefer this pub 🙂
A beautiful quadrille Jane, I love ‘Green as the ocean and kelp fronds waving’ and so glad to see the toad’s dusty back got moistened :o) xxx
Thank you! The one we found looked a bit too dry for comfort. He should be fine now—it’s been storming for hours!
:o) xxx
A beautiful reminder of summer rain, Jane. I love the lines:
‘Summer rain hangs
on ripe grass stalks
and runs through dangling catkins
of perfumed acacia blossom’.
Luscious and refreshing.
Thanks Kim. The acacia (they are false acacia really) have a gorgeous scent and the bees love the catkins before they’ve even opened.
Have not seen a toad around here ~ Love the way you described the summer rain hanging stalks and dangling catkins ~ Wishing you a good week Jane ~
Thank you, Grace 🙂
Nice observation “moisten the toad’s dusty back”. That toad might welcome the rain.
I think it was on the point of cracking up, literally!
Love the images here. The kelp fronds waving … a lovely ending.
Thank you, Vivian 🙂
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Wonderfully descriptive!
Thank you, Jo 🙂
I like how you convey a sense of the beautiful environment through the effects of the rain
Thank you. It’s all part of the big picture, we just only appreciate little bits of it 🙂
I love the Summer rain theme here tonight! It makes me feel alive. The rain on grasses and the veil that tears apart the sun’s heat.
Weather is tremendous stuff, isn’t it?
It sure can be. We need that Camelot weather
That sounds magical 🙂
😁
I like the image of the rain moistening the toads dusty back!
Thanks Dwight. That toad had picked a particularly stupid place to hole up—in the middle of a grass strip (can’t call it lawn) in full sun!
It is amazing how frogs and toad survive the heat and cold.
And where do they do in the summer when the ditches dry up?
Gosh this is beautiful! Especially love; “Summer rain hangs on ripe grass stalks
and runs through dangling catkins of perfumed acacia blossom.”
Thank you Sanaa. It’s so beautifully lush, this season.
A welcome summer rain! I love the toad and the kelp fronds waving 🙂
I swear the flowers have grown another six inches overnight!
I’m watching my garden grow from my wet window!
That’s what the rain is for 🙂
Lovely images–this seems like a gentle summer rain, and not a thunder storm (which is what we often get in the summer). Rain is so different in different seasons, isn’t it?
We had two storms, yesterday and the day before. The first was like this, a lot of cloud, lightning and thunder but gentle rain. Yesterday was the opposite—hardly any thunder and lightning but an absolute deluge of rain!
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Fantastic!
Thank you!