Tag: rain
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2015 Summer Wonders #69
Summer rain…it may look refreshing, but in a summer when, at one point, we had rain 35 of 40 days in a row, looks can be deceiving.
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Tunesday: The Dead, Box of Rain
Another rain post–AND a Tunesday post–one of my favorite songs. Anyone who ever had the pleasure of attending a outdoor Grateful Dead show in the rain knows what very special luck that is. Some bands run for cover, but the Dead just kicked it up a notch and dove into a “rain set.” The last…
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What? Rain?
This photo looks joyous. In truth, the young lady is surrendering to the inevitable, biding the rain gods to do what they will. The bastards. I don’t like to whine, but–are you kidding me? Less than a month ago, the following article ran in my hometown newspaper. I’ve never met this guy Quigley, but I…
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2015 Summer Wonder #22 :Dancing In The Rain
Not my first rain post, nor my last–summer wonders are far more than happy people in the warm sun, pretty girls in bikinis, convertibles, surf boards, sailing boats etc. Sometimes it rains, and when it rains one has a choice, if lucky, to run for cover or embrace the gift of it. All the best…
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2015 Summer Wonder #11 Afternoon Rain
At the trailing edge of a Thunderstorm, the world from my window lush and wild, the sky still booming from the horizon….
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Rainy Morning Meditations
It’s been a good summer, and today is a good day: the outdoor work hanging over my head has been suspended by gentle rains and I woke this morning to discover the low clouds–fog, mist, call it what you will, have confined my visibility–my experience–to a few hundred yards. A gentle wind shakes droplets of…
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War Poems For National Poetry Month: Bob Dylan, A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall
A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall, by Bob Dylan Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son? And where have you been my darling young one? I’ve stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains I’ve walked and I’ve crawled on six crooked highways I’ve stepped in the middle of seven sad forests I’ve been out…
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Alsea Falls, Oregon
…just click the link, and the pretty picture will make you smile. Alsea Falls, Oregon. Found this nice photo–very near where I used to live. Thanks!
Old Road Apples 