After the Rain

The smog here is bad. Really bad. As in, we have gorgeous, massive mountains directly north of us and the majority of times you can barely see them.

Which is why, I love the rain. Now, the rain rarely visits us. This summer it has rained 4 times. It rained the day Mary Kathryn and Kaylyn arrived in Italy, it rained one day when MK was here after James had left, it hailed one day, and it rained on Tuesday. That is it. Even though the storms come few and far between, I have learned to get very excited, because it means that you can actually SEE the mountains.

This past Tuesday, I heard the thunder starting roll and the rain starting to fall and I did the most logical thing next- took a nap. Duh. But when I woke up, I grabbed my camera and drove around town taking pictures of the mountains, fields, and corn! Once again...

I cannot believe I live here

 

Fresh Fruit

I was suppose to meet a friend for coffee, you know, because I'm wanting to try out all of these new coffees...well the day took over and it didn't end up happening for various reasons- instead we went to this orchard. It's a friend of a friend's house who lives on this beautiful hill with the mountains surrounding and then they have an orchard! With pears, apples, kumquat like things, seedless grapes, and another fruit that I don't know the name of.

It was gorgeous! So I grabbed a bag, picked a way too much fruit and I'm now having to hand it out to people because I can't eat it fast enough- what a great problem, right?

 I cannot believe I live here.

Blessed.

Look at God's creation that we ran into one day on a kayak ride around the channels.

It is a dolphin...not a shark. But it followed us/we followed it for a long time! And it got even closer than in the video. Fawn has the better video. I was in awe.