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{rain dance}

2012 July 6
by Rachel Turiel

Manna from motherfreaking heaven captured on my mom’s iphone – can you see those streaks of wetness falling from the sky? 

{I’m whispering this post because everything is very precarious right now and I’m a little superstitious, but it seems like perhaps the monsoons are digging in. After weeks of sun-bleached forecasts, the meteorologists are beginning to make wild predictions like, “a thunderstorm around.” If you get up on a mesa, like I did on last Monday’s milk run, where you can see 360 views of the mountain ranges, you can see how indeed, there are thunderstorms around. The clouds are whipping themselves into a thick batter almost daily. On Wednesday there was a brief and fierce cloudburst over town. It drove into the garden, sent cascades of water flushing down the street and our whole family dancing loonily outside, jacketless, chilled, until the last drop fell. May there be more to come.}



34 Responses leave one →
  1. July 6, 2012

    Great photo! Your mom really captured your joy!!

  2. Michele permalink
    July 6, 2012

    Lovely, when you are done with it please sent it to the middle :)

  3. Michele permalink
    July 6, 2012

    Lovely, when you are done with it please sent it to the middle :)

  4. July 6, 2012

    You and Rose look so much alike! And YIPPEEEEEEE for rain!

  5. July 6, 2012

    You and Rose look so much alike! And YIPPEEEEEEE for rain!

  6. July 6, 2012

    I’ll second the Yippeee for rain. I grew up about 10 miles from the Waldo Canyon fire, and, although I don’t live there anymore, I have been watching friends suffer through it. So glad the area is finally seeing rain.

  7. July 6, 2012

    I’ll second the Yippeee for rain. I grew up about 10 miles from the Waldo Canyon fire, and, although I don’t live there anymore, I have been watching friends suffer through it. So glad the area is finally seeing rain.

  8. July 6, 2012

    Please send some our way! It has been nearly 4 weeks since we’ve had rain and it is looking very dry out there!

  9. July 6, 2012

    Please send some our way! It has been nearly 4 weeks since we’ve had rain and it is looking very dry out there!

  10. July 6, 2012

    yes!!!!!

  11. July 6, 2012

    yes!!!!!

  12. July 6, 2012

    Praise that rain, coming down on our heads.

    • Rachel Turiel permalink
      July 7, 2012

      Love thinking of you down in New Mexico getting drenched in the same rain patterns!

  13. July 6, 2012

    Praise that rain, coming down on our heads.

    • Rachel Turiel permalink
      July 7, 2012

      Love thinking of you down in New Mexico getting drenched in the same rain patterns!

  14. July 6, 2012

    My goodness that smile on your face! Enjoy! xox

  15. July 6, 2012

    My goodness that smile on your face! Enjoy! xox

  16. July 6, 2012

    Love love love! And here’s to more where that came from.

  17. July 6, 2012

    Love love love! And here’s to more where that came from.

  18. Emmanuelle permalink
    July 6, 2012

    Beautiful rain dancer here…

  19. Emmanuelle permalink
    July 6, 2012

    Beautiful rain dancer here…

  20. EcoCatLady permalink
    July 7, 2012

    It’s pouring here in Denver. Rain, Rain, blessed Rain!!!!

  21. EcoCatLady permalink
    July 7, 2012

    It’s pouring here in Denver. Rain, Rain, blessed Rain!!!!

  22. July 7, 2012

    Yeah! We had rain all day (ALL DAY) Thursday, the first since May. But now back to sun-bleached forecasts.

  23. July 7, 2012

    Yeah! We had rain all day (ALL DAY) Thursday, the first since May. But now back to sun-bleached forecasts.

  24. July 7, 2012

    We too are praying for rain to quell this 3 digit heat. SO glad you guys in CO are getting a break and putting out the fires!!! Manna from Heaven. Love that. xoxo~a

  25. July 7, 2012

    We too are praying for rain to quell this 3 digit heat. SO glad you guys in CO are getting a break and putting out the fires!!! Manna from Heaven. Love that. xoxo~a

  26. July 10, 2012

    hi there :) nothing like a good rain dance. i love the smell and taste of rain, no other water can cleanse like rain can.

  27. July 10, 2012

    hi there :) nothing like a good rain dance. i love the smell and taste of rain, no other water can cleanse like rain can.

  28. July 10, 2012

    The rain has been such a blessing all over our beautiful state, and it feels great to know that perhaps we are past the worst of the season.

  29. July 10, 2012

    The rain has been such a blessing all over our beautiful state, and it feels great to know that perhaps we are past the worst of the season.

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