Rain Smells Good!!
This might as well be the desert. Any moisture is much appreciated. Well today, we got a half inch in less than 15 minutes.
The really weird part is; I could smell it coming. Granted, I just drove in from town, eight miles east, where it was already raining. Still, once I got to the ranch; I smelled it coming.
It was like BBQ or garlic or maybe perfume after a woman walks by your table @ a restaurant. But in this case, it was organic.
Sure enough.. about five minutes later.. big, fat drops began falling. They fell slowly at first. Then, they picked up, decreased in size and became a steady-albeit hard rainfall.
What you gotta know is.. you could spit out here and we'd ask: "how much rain did you get?" It's kinda a competitive thing. "How much did you get?" "A half inch." "That's great, but I got three-quarters."
The bottom line is.. a tenth.. a half inch.. an inch.. it counts. By tomorrow, the wildflowers will sprout, the doves will swarm and the tanks (ponds) will rise.
Now that I think about it.. rain is like one of those unforgettable smells. It's like BBQ when you're really hungry, garlic wafting over a big, home cooked Italian meal or a beautiful woman (my wife) gliding through a room with a dab of Chanel #5 hovering in her wake.
Bill Robertson
PS.. It's raining again as I write. And, we have wonderful tin roofs that amplify the sound.. As Hawkeye Pierce once said :"the sound of rain on a tin roof sounds like steaks on the grill."
The really weird part is; I could smell it coming. Granted, I just drove in from town, eight miles east, where it was already raining. Still, once I got to the ranch; I smelled it coming.
It was like BBQ or garlic or maybe perfume after a woman walks by your table @ a restaurant. But in this case, it was organic.
Sure enough.. about five minutes later.. big, fat drops began falling. They fell slowly at first. Then, they picked up, decreased in size and became a steady-albeit hard rainfall.
What you gotta know is.. you could spit out here and we'd ask: "how much rain did you get?" It's kinda a competitive thing. "How much did you get?" "A half inch." "That's great, but I got three-quarters."
The bottom line is.. a tenth.. a half inch.. an inch.. it counts. By tomorrow, the wildflowers will sprout, the doves will swarm and the tanks (ponds) will rise.
Now that I think about it.. rain is like one of those unforgettable smells. It's like BBQ when you're really hungry, garlic wafting over a big, home cooked Italian meal or a beautiful woman (my wife) gliding through a room with a dab of Chanel #5 hovering in her wake.
Bill Robertson
PS.. It's raining again as I write. And, we have wonderful tin roofs that amplify the sound.. As Hawkeye Pierce once said :"the sound of rain on a tin roof sounds like steaks on the grill."
posted by Windmill Ranch @ 4:31 PM
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