Last night we finally had proper, heavy rain. Not for long, but enough to raise the spirits of the vegetation that wasn’t already dead. It’s warm now, gentle, and the tension has dropped.
We walked out in it, the first shower, and watched the toads climb out of the ditches, and the carpet of snails sprung from nowhere. There are even tiny toadlets, though I have no idea how they survived the trek up the baking desert of the meadow. Nature is resilient. I hope, resilient enough.
Rain
There was rain and the smell of earth-sigh,
the patter or water and a trickle
running along the dry stream bed.
There were snails and toads
and owl choruses, and our feet
tripped along the lane beneath a pale moon,
as we listened to the wind from the ocean,
running its fingers through the hair of the trees,
whispering, Here is rain.
Jane Dougherty Writes 
How lovely. I’m sure it smelled good, too.
I love the running his fingers line. 🙂
It was a bit too rough and some big branches came down, but I imagine the trees think it was worth it 🙂
I imagine so!
I’m so glad you finally received rain! 😍🙏🏻
Enough to wash the dust off the leaves that are left. We could do with a lot more; but some are getting it in floods.
Oh yikes! Floods are never good.
The soil is too dry and baked to absorb torrential rain. We’re going from one extreme to the other!
I know how that is. Last night out of the blue… it poured here. Little pop-up storms that came from Lake Huron! The streets were full in no time!
The climate is unhinged!
Thank God, we have had some too 💜💜
I wish you plenty more, but not all at once!
No , we will drown 💜💜💜
😦
Just beautiful
Nature, unlike man, does not ask for much. What a much-needed relief.
I was astonished to see the toads, adults and the tiny ones the size of a thumb nail, hundreds of snails, all appear out of nowhere. Out of a desert! They are phenomenal.
Relief. Hope there’ll be more.
We need it! It’s another heat wave that’s predicted though…
The oceans caresses the trees and brings them a gift- lovely! We’ve had some rain here too, thank goodness. Not enough but not floods.
Thank you. Yes, the latest heat wave has broken, a bit rocky here but nothing like what some places have had. Just a bit of rain, a few violent gusts of wind and branches down, but mainly because the drought has made the trees so fragile.
So did we
first rain always a joy, first poem about it yet another joy
Yes and yes. I hope there’ll be more rainy poems before we bake again.
Wonderful, strikes a chord here, where we’ve just had rain after several baking weeks. Oh, the smell of rain after a long drought…🙂
It’s wonderful, isn’t it? Even when you know it was only like wiping a damp cloth over everything and the heat will be back in a few days, it’s still blissful.