The sky tonight looks as though some artist has taken a piece of charcoal and drawn across the sky: a black blot here and a gray misty blot there and others across the sky. We expect rain in a day or two, the first of the season, and the arid land can use it. The last rain we had here on the Gold Coast was in June, 2011, and that is quite a long time without nature's moisture, but we have that all the time. The rain will water with nature's soft, life giving water, the new Salvia plants that are now in the ground in the East Garden. The plants are Pink Autumn Sage and Hot Lips Sage, and the Hummingbirds have already discovered them and visit every day. At this time of year we usually have the Anna's Hummingbird in the area as they remain year round. We enjoy them very much, as they hover about the various blossoms in our gardens. We await the rain with anticipation and I would like to share a favorite poem with the reader about rain. It is by Susan Toth, really a quotation from her book rather than a poem, but it says it all about England, one of our favorite countries. I hope you enjoy it:
"The best kind of rain, of course, is a cozy rain. This is the kind the anonymous medieval poet makes me remember, the rain that falls on a day when you'd just as soon stay in bed a little longer, write letters or read a good book by the fire, take early tea with hot scones and jam and look out the streaked window with complacency."
~Susan Allen Toth, England For All Seasons
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