Glorious Rain....

Rain can be a relief...
...a respite...a portent of spring
~a super excuse...to stay home and cuddle and read a book and drink good tea...
..to paint your nails..

Rain is a thirst quencher for flowers...

..the best excuse to wear your rain boots...

...a stunning background to luscious greens....

..rain can make occasions memorable...

...rain can make us wonder (say aaaaahhh) at the profound beauty of nature...

Glorious rain...

credits: 1. Tapio Hurme (Flickr)
2. special (Flickr)
3. Shannonkristine (Flickr)
4. Burning Rubber (Flickr)
5. autoslub.net.pl
6. Ichiro Kishimi (Flickr)
7. Kittykatfish (Flickr)

Mono No Aware (2)*

I seldom blog twice a day but I wanted to share with you, as soon as I could, this photo I took today of a fading tulip....
~"the 'aahh-ness' of things"......

Photo by AJ

He said "and it feels like minus 20"....

..that's -4F for my American friends...and it was the radio guy who said so this morning, as I was getting out of my bath...yikes!!!!!!!!!!!!
So for now...I just dream of flowers...daffodils...they are taking their winter's rest and storing up energy to POP OUT come Spring!!