Autumn rain

[primsong]

I hear the spattering of the rain upon my windows and look outside to see a glorious whirling and waving, the dancing of the trees upon this sudden autumn rain. The wind gusts again and silver drops slide sideways past, down to pool among, to soak into the glistening strawberries and the butter-colored lilies that nod their heads amid the streaming green.

Golden poplar leaves briefly shower down, lifting and then dropping to lay beside their brethren amid the wet gravel, nestling into fallen pine needles and dark brown earth. Others lift, then lift again, taking wing, tumbling up and over the house like living things to find an incongruous home amid the firs in the back yard, golden-yellow drops of color in the deeper greens. The impossibly long, grey stems of the great firs slowly sway then drop to silence.

The wind is past, though the mountain will soon send more.

The rain is just beginning.




Outside my front window...

The rain pools upon the berries...

The firs wave amid the silver rain..

And the poplars swirl and shower me with leaves.

I heard a huge *crack* when it first began - a neighbor's dead poplar came down and crunched her old fence, and blocked my driveway. I'll have to get out the chainsaw before I can pick up my kids from school now! What a lovely storm.

Comments

Beautiful

[earlybird7.livejournal.com]

I love your way of describing things and your pictures are wonderful. I hope to find the time, eventually, when I can figure out how to do the pictures things nad all the side bar stuff.

I can just picture you manipulating the chain saw and cutting your way through the fallen poplar to be able to leave out of your driveway. What a sight! 8-)

Isn't a poplar tree a tree that is straight as an arrow and a thin type of tree with branches that look like weeping willow branches, but reversed and, except for the little bend shortly after they grow out from the trunk, grow straight up aimed towards the sky?

Re: Beautiful

[primsong.livejournal.com]

Yes indeed, tall and straight and filled with soft rustling all year long, bending with the wind. My long driveway is lined with them all along one side and I love them.

I was spared having to use the saw this time - one of the things it did when it fell was take out my neighbor's power line, so the power-guys showed up and cut a path through the fallen trunk before I'd even warmed up with cocoa and resolved to go do it. They're pretty quick!