Today is one of my favorite kinds of days and is a type that is too rare in our area. Right now we are enjoying a steady rain - its been raining all morning. It looks like this might be the kind of rain that will actually soak down to the roots in the garden and lawn. I love it. For the soak. But every bit as much for the feelings such days provide.

I love being able to sit here at the computer and listen to the rain pelting the leaves of the Ash tree and look out to see the droplets fall from the tips of the leaflets. The sky is not as interesting with such a general rain - light great and hardly any contrasting texture at all. But the view today, the way I see, is rich in fleeting silver streaks of rain against a willow tree backdrop, dark wet green leaves, yellow stalks of corn with darker gold leaves drooping in interesting ways from the weight of the rain, and spruce needles holding droplets catching the light from the white-grey sky.

Here is a case of the way I see it being much better than the way the digital camera sees it. It just couldn't focus as clearly as I'd like to show the sparkling droplets. You'll have to grab a memory of such days to clear up the picture a bit, and to "hear" the sounds of the rain as I'm doing right now.