Rain.......

What a tropical day we have had here. The sun shines and within no time heavy dark clouds float in to block the sunshine. A few times those clouds rumbled but mostly they dropped rain. In fact, as I type it is raining like a cascade outside. At first the birds go into a frenzy of noise then all I can hear is rain. After a few minutes the rain lightens and gently drops across the yard. Our house is on a hill so the rain appears to slope towards the north west. Then the sun reappears through the wet trees., glistening and sparkling like diamonds. Some times the reflection is bright enough to warrant sunglasses. The raindrops drip off the everything; the leaves, the sunshades radiant and shimmering and ever so clean. Today especially it reminds me of the tropics; the humidity so high that one's skin feels wet just walking around even though we are not perspiring. When we lived in Darwin I remember looking out to the small garden near the front verandah. The water droplets would fall to the ground helping to relieve us of the high humidity. It was always a welcome resprite when the wet season started. Now I sit here and look out to this garden so many thousands of kilometers south east of Darwin and am reminded of how the weather patterns can be so similiar. I might venture out when the rain seizes and have a dig in the garden.