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It Rained! It Poured!
Last Friday night, the unimaginable happened here in Los Angeles - IT RAINED! Finally ... it had been more than a year since we'd seen rain like that! Not only did it rain all night, it rained for a good part of the next day, too. I was so happy, and so mesmerized by the whole rainy day coziness that I forgot I was a blogger and I should take pictures for you! So I ran to my camera and of course - no juice. By the time my batteries were charged the rain rain had gone away, to come again some other day (knock on wood!).
So today, I had Jan help me fake a torrential downpour to make up for my fumbling the shots of the first rain of the season. I have to be honest.
But hey, we created and captured a rainbow!
Everybody in the city was so thrilled by the rain. It wasn't a tiny sprinkle of wetness that just grabs all the smog and dust all the way down the atmosphere and deposits it on your car, it was a night and a day of honest to goodness showers ... steady drenching followed by moments of drizzle followed by a sudden deluge every so often. It was truly hydrating for us thirsty Los Angelenos, who have been living with drought on and off for decades now.
My garden looks sooooo perky. It's funny the difference rain makes. I'm sure I've commented on that before, because it never ceases to amaze me - rain seems better for plants than sprinkler water.
Hmmmm .... does rainwater have chlorine in it?
Now it's terribly hot again, but for a moment, it was real wet weather and I was in all my rainy glory - damp socks, frizzy hair, leaky roof ... but I couldn't have been happier.
Whee, so funny. If there is one thing I cannot imagine, it's living somewhere where it doesn't rain. My Oregon roots! They would shrivel right up!
Yea for rain. I live in San Diego and we go the same rain treatment here too. It's funny because a group of us went wine tasting on Sat (an annual event) and it rained last year and this year. Of all the days it rains...:)
Epmanda - More wine tasting for you, then! If I could choose my version of a rain dance, then a wine tasting would be right up there...
I LOVE San Diego, by the way. it is such a beautiful little city ... Jan and I go down there a few times a year to check out the Museum of Contemporary Art there ... the one in the train station. And there are great nurseries nearby, too.
Omigod Katef, I think people from the Pacific Northwest would just shrivel up into dried out people-pods with the heat and drought we get. I've decided that the next time I feel the need for a good rainstorm, I'm hopping on a plane to Seattle or Portland for a couple of days - there is sure to be a storm within a 48 hour period, right?
Maybe in Seattle! Where I'm from, in Eugene, there is a rainy season (October or November through early June) and a dry season. Rain in the summer is a freak occurrence. (Unlike Seattle and, to a lesser degree, Portland, the Willamette Valley is protected from the worst of the storms off the ocean by the coast range.) It's the perfect climate!
I've been to MOCA that's on Kettner/train station. They have really unusual installments/art. Hope you enjoy SD the next time you are here!
It's probably not just the absence of chlorine and fluoride that makes rain so much better than city water - it's all the lovely minerals and other good stuff that seems to make plants happier.
We enjoyed it too, but I want MORE!!
I know, Susa! How do we get more rain to come? A rain dance? Send Epmanda wine tasting? I'm dying for more - and so is my garden. the plants have gone back to their regular 'sprinkler water' look.
We should invest in rain barrels!
Rain barrel? More like a "rain barely," since it barely rains.
And now here come the Santa Anas - sheesh!