1 post tagged “rainy day”
What's the best way to spend a rainy day? Since 40 year old me is going to give the same old "reading, watching a movie, cuddling with my sweetie/pillow/animal" I'd rather have 10 year old me answer:
Out in the rain playing. Growing up in Ohio makes rain and storms something of a treat (for me anyway). You not only get used to them but you actually look forward to them. I love rain and I'm not talking about some sissy April shower. I mean real rain, a thunderstorm. Buckets and buckets of rain and with it thunder so loud it rattles the windows, lightning so close and bright it makes you blind for a moment. You know a storms coming by the smell in the air, the change of the wind, the darkness of the sky. You can tell when a storm's going to be a good one by the sound of the drops when it starts. Lots and lots of huge drops that go "splat" when they hit the concrete steps of my porch or "thump" on the windshield of a car. When it really kicks in I'm on my porch watching the two huge maples in the front yard sway and shake in the wind. I can't believe how cool it looks when the drops are blown into sheets and for just a second I can see what wind looks like. The wind swirls and drives a cold spray into my face and I'm in heaven. The gutters are overflowing and the street is turning into a torrent as the strip of asphalt gets narrower and narrower and then totally covered by a sheet of moving, living water. At that point it's like some secret signal has been sent out and my neighbors, my sibling and I race into the street to play in the rushing, shin deep water. Sometimes it's as warm as a bath or freezing cold but it doesn't matter either way. All that water is ours for those precious minutes until it drains away.
Eventually the thunder fades, the wind dies, the water drains away. But we're left with a deep feeling of happiness? contentment? Maybe feeling we were a part of something brief and beautiful. We go back home to shed our soaked clothes, bathe to warm our clammy skin, and watch the sun set in that unearthly orange post-storm glow.
