There are some months of the year here in the Pacific Northwest when it feels like it’s just raining all the time, where it’s not a huge exaggeration to say that 30 minutes without rain qualifies as a dry-spell, a drought.
On the other hand, come summertime, we can easily go thirty days without rain. Two or three summer months can pass with very little rain, and when rain finally does come, it feels SO good.
Today we’re getting one of those welcome summer rains, a soft, gentle rain that the Navajos call a “Woman Rain.” I put a macro lens on my camera and went out into the land of raindrops to see what I could see.
In Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard wrote of the natural world: “There are a lot of things to see, unwrapped gifts and free surprises. The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside from a generous hand....
”...if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day...you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days. It is that simple. What you see is what you get.”
