Two straight days of nothing but rain here in central NJ and so I did what every warm blooded middle aged man would do … I took rainy day garden photos. Always a fun time and proof positive that my garden writing/photography days are still hanging around.
Here’s how things are looking outside right now, all sorts of wonderfully brown and dreary and upliftingly depressing.
It couldn’t have been more fun and as if nature knew of our plans, we ran into a family of deer:
And found this dude chilling in the driveway:
My mind and camera started to wander a bit:
But quickly focused back on what would make this day memorable:
Some times it is the simple things that make a day like this stick in your memory and I know I’ll cherish it for a long time.
John
We had a nice, long cooling rain last night that was music to my ears as it pounded on the windows. I could also tell that the plants were very thankful this morning as they all seemed to have a little jump in their step.
Quick diversion though, before I show you some of the “After the Rain” photos.
When I typed in the title for this post, it immediately brought me back to one of the “so bad it’s good” MTV videos from the late 1980’s. I grew up on MTV and admittedly was a “Hair Metal” fan back in the day (I’ll give you a second to let those words sink in).
“After the Rain” by Nelson is so awfully good and I urge to watch it before proceeding:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFLggqjddKM
Fantastic, right?
Photo time:
