Nature Diary This week I walked my usual circuit a few times, visiting all the usual spots. On Friday the weather was erratic, dark and showery one minute, and sunny the next. I dodged the showers until the sun returned in the late afternoon. The air was unexpectedly still, hot, and heavy with moisture. I made my way to a lookout beyond the beach, from that vantage point I could see a huge dark cloud and a band of rain sweeping across the ocean, making its way towards land, and me. There was no thunder or lightning, the makings of the storm without the electricity. The clouds and their showers reached me within just a minute or two. I wasn’t drenched, but I discovered how ineffective my rain jacket was. I remembered that I don’t mind rain when it’s soft rain, like home. The kind of rain that covers you lightly, all-pervasive, umbrellas don’t work against it, but in Spring or Summer, you’ll dry soon enough. It brought to mind Damien Dempsey’s song, the string arrangement from Crash Ensemble in this clip from RTE is divine.
Soft Rain & Samhain - Little Snippets #8
Soft Rain & Samhain - Little Snippets #8
Soft Rain & Samhain - Little Snippets #8
Nature Diary This week I walked my usual circuit a few times, visiting all the usual spots. On Friday the weather was erratic, dark and showery one minute, and sunny the next. I dodged the showers until the sun returned in the late afternoon. The air was unexpectedly still, hot, and heavy with moisture. I made my way to a lookout beyond the beach, from that vantage point I could see a huge dark cloud and a band of rain sweeping across the ocean, making its way towards land, and me. There was no thunder or lightning, the makings of the storm without the electricity. The clouds and their showers reached me within just a minute or two. I wasn’t drenched, but I discovered how ineffective my rain jacket was. I remembered that I don’t mind rain when it’s soft rain, like home. The kind of rain that covers you lightly, all-pervasive, umbrellas don’t work against it, but in Spring or Summer, you’ll dry soon enough. It brought to mind Damien Dempsey’s song, the string arrangement from Crash Ensemble in this clip from RTE is divine.