We woke up to the sound of thunder and rain in the middle of the night. Pouring-down rain, lots of thunder. I think it started around 3:00 this morning and it lasted a good long while. From the upstairs balcony, I can see that even the shallow end of the pond is filled to the brim now. Usually, the water rushes in through that shallow part and it runs right to the deep side of the pond. After last night's rain, the entire pond is rowboat-worthy, if anyone had a mind to do that. (Not this girl, thank you.)
The weather yesterday was sunny, warm, and picture-perfect, and very much like Spring. I call this time of the year The Second Spring because all the roses and azaleas are in bloom again, the butterflies and dragonflies are out in force, and the yellow-jackets are just all over the property.
Our Halloween party was last night.... friends came in costume for a potluck dinner and hours of laughs and conversation. It was very nice of the weather gods to provide such a beautiful day yesterday..... all of those great costumes would have been soaked if that pouring rain had started at party time.
As we drive around the towns up here, all of the pastures are green and lush.... unlike other years when everything was brown and brittle by the middle of July. We've had more rain than usual this season, and while the pouring rain is sometimes more than the smaller back-roads can bear, the fields and pastures are just drinking it all up. And the frogs..... after the rain comes the symphony of frogs, and you have to be careful where you step in the morning because there's bound to be a frog right in front of your feet.
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