Refreshing Rain 2025-05-02 and 2025-05-03 (publ. 2025-05-06)

Friday, May 2 2025

7:15pm

The boys and I are out in the yard, about two hours after a light rain. The air is fresh and feels moist and cool in my nose. The smell in the air reminds me of hay bales, from my childhood, with a slightly musty scent. But there is also a hint of some spicy aroma — maybe from the Lodgepole Pine, or the spruce trees...?

In our little garden, about 25 or 30 Rhubarb buds have popped up. Some have partially unfolded — still very wrinkly — to about 3 inches long.

Saturday, May 3 2025

10:47am

The boys and I are out in the yard again, so they can play in the rain. They are always eager for any excuse to get out the umbrellas. A moderate rain has been falling for about 1.5 hours. The air smells a little musty, like it would smell deep in wet Alaskan woods, like the smell of many wet, dead leaves. The air feels colds, with an actual temperature of 49.2 ℉. The sky is a blurry mix of mostly white, with some grey patches and some very light blue here and there.

Large raindrops spheres hang off the tips of each needle on the lodgepole pine in the yard. I can see green on the birch trees now, as the leaves are just beginning to break out of the buds.

A bird sings with a sliding trill, maybe six beats per second. Another bird sounds out staccato notes at a slightly faster pace of about eight beats per second. Another gives off a wobbling, sliding sound, that alternates between sliding up and sliding down. Yet another bird sustains a vibrating, pulsing trill at a high pitch, giving off about three pulses every second.

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