Yup, Fall has REALLY arrived
Oct. 4th, 2006 07:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aamusedinatxI napped in shifts today, in between conference calls and email bursts. This made easier by the unusual phenomenon of RAIN.
Typically our rainy season begins in late October. We normally don't see rain until Halloween. This afternoon we were visited with a slow steady rain. As the sun set the rain returned. I have my front door open and I can hear it patter gently against the patio outside. The air smells heavy of moisture. It hasn't rained here since May-ish (as I recall.) So it smells, sounds, and feels so strange and unusual. I like it, I like the sound of water falling against the house, against the pavement. I love the smell of damp earth in the air. I only wish we got WARM rain instead of cold rain. Rain down here means snow in the Sierras. We could get an early and good ski season, if this is any indiciation.
By the time we reach next May, I'll be ready for the rain to go away. Still, we see less rain, typically then places like Portland, Seattle, Vancouver--the northern rain-forest regions that stretch up into the South-east section of Alaska. We do get long stretches of cool sunshine in the winter time. It takes a fairly significant el nino winter for us to get unrelenting rain here.
And so, Fall has arrived with a steady tap, tap, tap of rain falling from the sky. There's no going back to summer now!
Typically our rainy season begins in late October. We normally don't see rain until Halloween. This afternoon we were visited with a slow steady rain. As the sun set the rain returned. I have my front door open and I can hear it patter gently against the patio outside. The air smells heavy of moisture. It hasn't rained here since May-ish (as I recall.) So it smells, sounds, and feels so strange and unusual. I like it, I like the sound of water falling against the house, against the pavement. I love the smell of damp earth in the air. I only wish we got WARM rain instead of cold rain. Rain down here means snow in the Sierras. We could get an early and good ski season, if this is any indiciation.
By the time we reach next May, I'll be ready for the rain to go away. Still, we see less rain, typically then places like Portland, Seattle, Vancouver--the northern rain-forest regions that stretch up into the South-east section of Alaska. We do get long stretches of cool sunshine in the winter time. It takes a fairly significant el nino winter for us to get unrelenting rain here.
And so, Fall has arrived with a steady tap, tap, tap of rain falling from the sky. There's no going back to summer now!
