morning drizzle

This morn­ing the run­ners in the Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon are tak­ing to the streets down the hill from me. It’s over­cast and cool enough, for sure. But some­how I’m not feel­ing moti­vated to run 26 miles…

The locals have a name for these two months when the morn­ing cloud cover blots out the sun: May gray and June gloom. It makes for a slow eas­ing into sum­mer, good run­ning weather, and pro­longs the sea­son when you can hope to put plants in the ground and not have to worry too much about keep­ing them watered.

Yes­ter­day was extra-cool, and the thick marine layer of clouds made for a heavy driz­zle most of the day. For me the sight of rain­drops on plants is rare enough that I grabbed the camera.

Are pho­tos of rain­drops and dew­drops on plants and flow­ers cliches? Dunno. Even if they are, I think there’s some­thing so sat­is­fy­ing about them that peo­ple need to keep tak­ing them.

rain-on-datura-3

rain-on-datura-1

rain-on-echium-1

Below are all the pho­tos I took in smaller gallery for­mat. Going left to right: images 1–4, flow­ers of sacred datura, Datura wrightii; 5–6, leaves on tower of jew­els, Echium wild­pretii; 7, spi­der­web on Cal­i­for­nia fuch­sia, Epi­lo­bium canum ‘Catalina’; 8, flow­ers of deer­weed, Lotus sco­par­ius.


May 31 2009 | Categories: gardening • my garden | Tags: • • • • | 6 Comments »