Three a.m. The explosion woke me. It was followed by a flash of lightening that brought daylight into our bedroom for a moment. This continued for an hour- no rain, amazing thunder and lightening. As many times as I have experienced these summer storms here, I still feel restless and edgy. Our woods are extremely dry and the lightening was potentially dangerous.
When the rain began it was torrential. We neglected to get up before it started to close windows and doors and bring in cushions from the chairs. I went back to sleep.
The rain brought a small river running down our road which curves around our house in the back. The mud that came with it immediately covered the drain in the road and some water entered the other bedroom. We now have a small stream that has been running through our meadow and past our new well for three days. It seems to be coming from under the road. A morning of clean-up and drying out. The rain was very welcome.
The second morning after, the day was glorious! Like one of those first crisp, clear autumn days back east. We took Sonny in the car to the top of the road so Dik wouldn't follow and walked. It was like suddenly having 20/20 vision after seeing everything with slightly fuzzy and dusty edges. (Click on the Flickr link for photos.)
Little blue bachelor buttons had sprung up everywhere. The world was "mud-lucious and puddle-wonderful"!
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