It was around lunch time when she first commented that a storm was coming. Sun shone out of a relatively cloudless sky.
How do you feel the approach of a storm? Smell it? Feel it on your skin?
It makes my fur stick out when the air is full of unreleased energy.
A strange calm gathered weight, and the afternoon felt increasingly heavy.
People go about their business. The earth continues to rotate.
We left work an hour early (just in case) and arrived home just as the first clap of thunder rolled out of the heavens.
And then there was rain.
Soft rain that makes the earth breathe in. Soft rain that makes leaves bounce gently as the water collects and drips
Drips
Drips
Soft rain that smells fresh and cools the air.
After dark the lightening was really something else. Whoohoooooooo.
Hari OM
ReplyDeleteTigger - you have a poet lurking within you! These simple sentences evoke an entire scene, an ambiance, an experience... and I could the warm earth drinking in those early drops... hugs and whiskeries, YAM-aunty xxx
Aunty YAM - all cats are poetic. I sit on the back balcony many nights to listen to, and participate in, live poetry readings. F simply doesn't appreciate the music of my poetry. Furrings and purrings. Mr T
DeleteCould you smell the dust as it settled? You can often smell it before the rain arrives at your house.
ReplyDeleteWe have rain at the moment- cold wet miserable rain! Sit in front of the fire and wish summer would hurry up rain.
We would happily swap you the weather; we loved our log fire and looking out at the stream rising and raging across the road.
DeleteWasn't the lightening terrific. It lit up all the way across our hills. And good rain, not destructive.
ReplyDeleteYou probably got better lightening - we would just catch that flash of distant light. We got only one truly spectacular sky-splitting lightening bolt, but at least it waited until things were properly dark. Tigger loves lightening. Strange cat.
DeleteI always feel rain in my body but I can smell a thunderstorm coming
ReplyDeleteI love the light and noise of the storm and we get torrential rain
My dog not so much. He hates it. So he will come inside and hide
We have had so much rain lately that I really don’t want to see anymore for a while
I’m trying to convince it all to head off to our farmers who always need the moisture