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A Joyful Noise

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The welcome respite of rain

March 12, 2020 by Melodye Shore

Rain’s in the forecast every day this week, spilling over into the next! No big deal in most parts of the country, but it’s a blessing for SoCal residents because it tamps down fears of another drought. Also: Traffic’s lighter, because we sun-lovers don’t venture out as much when it’s wet.

And so it is that I’m curled up in my reading chair, memorized by the percussive sounds of raindrops on our red tile roof. It falls in sheets from the wooly-gray sky, shimmies down my picture window and splashes into my birdbath. My garden is getting a long, deep soaking, and I am filled with a sense of well-being.

It’s as if Mother Nature is sprinkling over all of Creation what we needed most–a quarantine of sorts for world-weary humans, and liquid nourishment for the great outdoors.

Image: “Rain Room” exhibit at LACMA; my silhouette.

Posted in: be still, birdbath, california, weather, writing Tagged: california, coronovirus, drought, LACMA, Rain Room, weather

A Welcome Drink of Water

November 1, 2014 by Melodye Shore

Serendipity: That midnight moment in which you're first awakened from a pleasant dream and find yourself wishing you were a poet because there aren't enough gorgeous words in your vocabulary to help describe the rain that's splashing on the tile roof pattering on the sidewalk and soaking into the parched earth and neither can you find the right rhythm and cadence to help capture the sounds of the wind that's whistling through the chaparral and whooshing through the palms. So you just stand at the open window and drink it all in.

As dark gives way to light, the rainclouds drift from west to east.

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The pre-dawn downpours are replaced by sunshowers, and then sprinkles.

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The birds are chirping, the fresh-washed foliage is sparkling.…and the hillsides are once again bathed in sunshine.

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Rain, rain, come again…come again, another day!

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