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[jazzfish]

It's raining. Honest-to-gosh raining, dark and cold, veiling the world in mist and drizzle. Stepping out the door this morning, into the cold and wet and soft wind, I felt utterly renewed. I hadn't realised how unbearably dry August has been until now. I've been waiting my whole life for this rainstorm.

I spend so much of summer focused on knowing that fall comes immediately after. Tonight, I felt cold outside for the first time in months. It was awesome, and I felt a sense of physical possibility and movement towards something.
--fuzzyamy

The early-morning sense that anything could happen. The curious unmistakeable hiss of wet tires on wet asphalt as headlights grow large and rush past. (All cars are grey in the dark.) The quiet communion with a world poised and ready for . . . something.

Feeling the wind rise up tonight, I remember how much I love the feel of a storm arriving . . . One way or another, everything is going to be cleansed in the aftermath.
--baranoouji

Comments

[pictsy.livejournal.com]

I also feel very excited at the first whiff of fall. Summer is so mundane, but fall and winter are when the mythology comes pouring out.

[tulip-tree.livejournal.com]

Hurray for rain! We had a similar rainstorm here on Monday night... not nearly as much or as long (we didn't have the force of a tropical storm behind ours) but still, it was the first real rain in almost two months, and it was amazing. Everyone who says it rains all the time in Seattle hasn't been here in the summer, and this has been a particularly dry summer. Even in the "rainy season" (aka all the months that are not July/August/September) it is an exciting event for me when it actually rains hard enough that you can hear the rain pounding on the roof. Monday's rain was like that, and I loved it. I think I have an idea of how you feel about the rain where you are today. Glad you're enjoying it!

[darkfyre-muse.livejournal.com]

I miss sitting on the upstairs porch feeling the storm roll across the lake. It just doesn't rain like that out here. The rolling, soul renewing type of rain that leaves everything new and lush. But yes fall comes, and while summer here will last until November during the day. At night fall settles in and blows through the night like a cleasning breath.

[rbandrews]

You're in a particularly good place for Fall. Blacksburg is better though, especially the campus. When the wind blows (which is constantly) everything makes a whooshing crackling noise, it's the perfect temperature all the time, all the people who went away over the summer are back, and all your classes are still in the stage where it's fun to learn new things, and not yet to the stage where you want the idiots to just shut up and let you graduate already.

[kathleenroberts.livejournal.com]

Rain? Send some my way please. Oh, that's right wrong direction. I haven't seen rain since we moved here. Lots of fog though. Every morning. Thick enough so that your windshield wipers get used even if it doen't rain.