Let It Rain

BumberShootStudio Paintings
Copyright 2014
'Dance In The Rain'

Songs and poems have been written about its magic for centuries, both of its life giving flow and its destructive powers. You can romanticize it or view it as a downer but whether your a dreamer or a pessimist...rain is necessary.

I live in an area of the country that gets a lot of it...a lot.  Where I live is also exquisitely beautiful, ironically, it's splendor and charm are directly connected to the amount of rain that falls. Jurassic Park size evergreens, forests so dense and green they transport you to another world. Rivers packed with salmon and wildlife, lakes overflowing with geese and ducks, year round snow capped mountains and I haven't even begun to describe the opulence of this place.

I am not going to touch on the gloomy part of the rain...because I choose not to.  Living here has taught me that refined grace does not come for free. The rain is necessary, I've learned to see beyond the gray and behold the grander.