Today is a rainy day, as was yesterday. LOVE rain! Can't get enough. Perhaps it's because I've lived nearly all my life in arid areas, wondering if it would ever rain again. Going so many months without a drop.
Now, we've moved from San Diego, which logs an average annual rainfall of around 9 inches, to Grass Valley, which claims 55. Fifty-five wonderful inches! I hate the word "drought". It always gives me a prickly and anxious feeling. There is, of course, a very real and constant concern about fresh water availability all over the world, including local regions as populations grow. But, beyond that, at a visceral level--in the more primitive parts of my brain (some might say that's most of it)--rain relaxes me. Gloom is good!. Would I ever get tired of wet weather? I'll probably never know. I'd have to live in Portland (avg. 60 in.) or Mawsynram, India (avg. 467 in.!!!) for many years to get the full treatment. I'm guessing it wouldn't matter (well, I'm not so sure about Mawsynram...). Up here, we recently went about two and a half weeks without precipitation of any kind, and, unaccountably, I was becoming concerned. I'm sure it's one reason that summer is my least favorite season of the year. So, it's raining, today. Ahh. I hope it's raining where you are, too!
Are you always asking yourself, like I am, what ONE medium you would choose, if you had to choose just one, to make amazing art? John Bisbee chose the obvious--construction nails. Check these out: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=87808787
Totally cool!
That's it, for the moment. Hey, it's hailing! Heavenly!
