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Jan. 13th, 2006 01:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
adrienmundiI love the rain, particularly when I can get out in it. Walking to and from lunch becomes even more of a private, special act. It's just me and the environment; all the water soluble people are packed away in cars, running from them to their destinations. I had a huge smile on my face the whole time.
The strip of woods is always more still and warmer than the area around it (at least when it's cool; when it's hot, it's cooler there). The ephemeral streams explode with enthusiasm, happily rushing and gurgling towards the creek at the heart of the woods. I watched the water back up and eventually spill over the top of a living dam, a tree that fell across a bend, but is still alive and partially rooted, and was just amazed. It's not a private affair, my walking in the woods in the rain, but there are definitely no other people present. I thought about it being warmer, and then wondered how I'd be able to explain being soaked to the skin from playing in the rain. When I got back to the office, I realized I was drenched from the knees down :)
The strip of woods is always more still and warmer than the area around it (at least when it's cool; when it's hot, it's cooler there). The ephemeral streams explode with enthusiasm, happily rushing and gurgling towards the creek at the heart of the woods. I watched the water back up and eventually spill over the top of a living dam, a tree that fell across a bend, but is still alive and partially rooted, and was just amazed. It's not a private affair, my walking in the woods in the rain, but there are definitely no other people present. I thought about it being warmer, and then wondered how I'd be able to explain being soaked to the skin from playing in the rain. When I got back to the office, I realized I was drenched from the knees down :)
