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it's been brown.   All the brown browner.  All the green with a layer of brown dust.    Rain      began yesterday evening and continued all through the night.   I left the door open.  Only the screen door.   Tay was In,  first time in months.   i woke on and off to listen.   Rain came.  Steady.   Pouring down from the   "Sky".     The weather app on the phone is great.  Hour by hour and updated if there is change.  Reliable.    Said  Rain would stop at 11 am.   would resume at noon.  Perfect.   When i went out to feed Goats in the Corridorof the Curry House i looked to the left because of movement down the way …squirrel… but what i saw was Surreal.   All that Brown was

Green

the immediate Response of Lichen and Moss  who love the branches and trunks of the Oaks.  How they had Waited.    The leaves,   glistening with a tentative morning Sunlight……it was very truly breathtaking and very truly Magical.   I have loved reading more and more the Science of it but in that moment ,  it was sheer Magic.

intermittant SUN during the day and Rain resuming at 6 pm,  again….a so welcome window for Evening Feed.  and  on,  now  2 more days,  then Gone for time being.      Here,  on this Hill,   it is truly a Great Life.   Still.   Still.

click the second pic.

 

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9 responses to “what words would we use for this?”

  1. Laura Avatar
    Laura

    Respite from the parched earth, throat. I can’t even remember when we knew the last drops of rain.

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  2. jude Avatar

    yes, here too, the moss. instagreen

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  3. Deb G Avatar

    Still waiting. Just a tiny bit of rain last Friday, a teaser. Very, very dry here.

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  4. Liz A Avatar

    my words just got eaten, but I am determined, so I will write them again … clicking on the second image, looking at the flat leaf-like structures reminded me of the floodplain at the Hill Country house … it was seemingly bare of all but rocks, stripped of any meaningful amount of soil, baked in the Texas sun … and yet, when it rained, there would be a “bloom” of leaf-like beings much like those in the center of your picture, but brown/black instead of green … each one as thin and about the size of a small fingernail, with no discernible attachment or root … the only analog I could imagine at the time was seaweed

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  5. CatherinE Avatar
    CatherinE

    I live in Maine, a relatively wet place, but still it’s been very dry this summer. Had an inch of rain overnight which was wonderful. I love seeing the plants respond like this.

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  6. LaceLady Avatar
    LaceLady

    words ~ ready to GROW and FLURISH when the rain comes. I love the nearly instantaneous “greening” after rain, here in the PNW. I sometimes wonder if I put my ear to the ground (deaf in the other one) could I hear the water and photosynthesis (converts carbon dioxide and water into oxygen and glucose) happening, maybe a Nature Symphony, and can actually see it turning green – its actual shimmering movement. Amazing transformations. Our little valley is SO ready for rain. Still Chilliwack wildfire smoke in the air here, on a beautiful fall day. Oops, got lost in my reveries.
    your moss and lichen are gorgeous – alive, grooving in the clean clear air.

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  7. Faith Avatar

    “Awesome” works for me.

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  8. Margery Avatar

    Beauty-filled, awe-inspiring — just plain inspiring/inspirited ….and on beyond words….
    Two Wonder-filled books to read & re-read:
    — Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer
    — The Songs of Trees: Stories of Nature’s Great Connectors by David George Haskell

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  9. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    Glorious is my word for it! I wonder what their tiny plant DNA is thinking… Get it while the gettin’s good!!

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