Rain.  that continues.  day/night/day/night.  Rain.  Off and on,  Hail.  then rain.  Heavy rain.  like,  Heavy.  Big.  Rain.  the old mother, of the Lizard Clan,  the Desert clan,  feels it.  But  having seen the lizards here,  knows there is a way to be with it.  Be With It.  Other places, snow.  Here,  rain.  Water.  Sky Water.  No storms,  they say.  no electrical storms.  

today,  twice.  Lightning.  Thunder.  Great and Fine Thunder.  Goats run for shelter.

old mother,  young mother,  midlings read Harry Potter.  Infant listens closely.  Thunder.  Goats shelter.  

you need to remember or know.  This is like camping.  Here….it's like camping in its way.

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18 responses to “california snow”

  1. joanne Avatar
    joanne

    Once or twice in my years here in Maine we have had Thunder Snow. Quite exciting.
    I think of the rain/snow as food for Earth. Filling wells. Feeding trees.
    Ending drought here in Maine. Where you are–making lush grass for the goats to eat
    You may have rain for a week or more. I may have to shovel more snow if another storm comes.
    Life is like Camping.

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  2. Nancy Avatar

    May you stay safe and warm!

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  3. Mo Crow Avatar

    (((Grace))) howz the stitching going?

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  4. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    In the last weeks of Winter camp, all creatures long for Spring.

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  5. beth Avatar

    Camping in the rain. A tarp can only do so much.

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  6. Liz A Avatar

    Rain, even when needed and hoped for, can weigh on one … it’s the grayness of it for me. May you see sun and blue sky soon …

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  7. grace Forrest Avatar

    camping is a good way to think of it all.
    i remember when working all year added up to that
    2 or 3 week vacation and we could go camping.

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar

    it is. Safe and Warm. Dry and fed. So much more
    than so many in this world. In it’s way it is
    luxury.

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  9. jude Avatar

    and more snow here last nigh unannounced. and more coming, But woodpeckers are drumming spring songs through it all. and cloth is like shelter.

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar

    there are some really wonderFULL grey squirrels that have
    been slowly slowly coming near us….as they come to get
    used to my being here. Today they played on the posts
    of the first buck yard…just behind the
    horse trailer…very close. IN THE RAIN.

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    but what a tarp does it does SO well…

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    some things are the same no matter where…it’s
    a lot the Goats for me…wanting to get their feed
    to them

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    it is. shelter. what Holds. And i think of how in the
    beginning of knowing how you work, i was so TAKEN IN by the
    fact that any scraps can become so much…i need to go back
    to that. And this span of time is perfect for that remembering.
    there are woodpeckers here too…i think of that…living
    among woodpeckers

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  14. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    I see you Grace .. in my minds eye surrounded with beating hearts. Cozy .. comfy making memories that will live on for a very long time in the minds and hearts of those little one. Thank goodness for crazy rainy days.

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  15. Deb Avatar

    I feel ~apart~. Everywhere there is weather mayhem. Today, all the doors and windows thrown wide to the fresh air and sunshine. All the wind chimes singing. Robins feasting on the front lawn, chasing each other in circles. Coyotes at sunset. Sweetie hides from the squirrels and soon, the possum will be back on my kitchen table stealing my ripe fruit. Wish I could box up some moderation and share it around..

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  16. Martine Bos Avatar

    Rain…………….ha, i know everything about rain……

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  17. Deb G Avatar

    Poured here yesterday and today brilliant sunshine. Planting peas, lettuce and spinach before the rain returns.

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