Early last night, after days of steamy weather, the sky opened and the rain fell in sheets. Within 20 minutes, the temperature dropped from low 90s to low 70s. And in the wee hours of this morning, I woke just long enough to reach for a blanket to fend off an almost autumnal chill.
If you’re perfectly still, you can almost hear the inhabitants of southern New Hampshire joined in one collective sigh: ahhhhh!
Jul 28, 2005 at 7:30 am
The rain missed us here, sadly. But the coolness came anyway. sigh.
Jul 28, 2005 at 7:58 am
Beautiful picture. The only way I will feel 70 degrees, until sometime in late October, is if the air conditioner is blowing. Or, if I go to the grocery store and stand in the frozen food section.
Jul 28, 2005 at 9:33 am
Same thing happened here except it’s torrential rain and now there’s a flood warning!! and I just bought my first convertable…oh well, I guess I’ll work out sooner rather than later whether it’s waterproof or not
Jul 28, 2005 at 12:20 pm
The lightning was so close and the thunder so loud, my car alarm went off! Poor thing was traumatized by it all.
Jul 28, 2005 at 12:31 pm
Must be nice. In the wee hours of the same morning, I was woken up first by an LAPD helicopter flying very low our neighborhood, and shining their searchlights into our yards. Some time after that, I was roused again by a coughing fit suffered by a homeless man camped out in the Zen Center garden near my open window.
Jul 28, 2005 at 1:49 pm
wow. that’s got to be one of your best photos yet. really beautiful. thank you for sharing. i only wish you were able to share the cool weather too. we’re still in the middle of a heatwave here in bakersfield, california (100+ for 3 weeks now).
Jul 28, 2005 at 4:30 pm
Can’t hear them over the volume of similar sighs in the eastern half of Massachusetts. The accent’s a little different, but the sentiment is the same.
Jul 28, 2005 at 9:02 pm
I went out and jogged right after the storms, which hit the same time in Virginia. Several others were on the path, all of us jogging for the first time in days, surely.
Jul 29, 2005 at 2:09 am
This photo is postcard perfect. I’m glad the rain cleared things up for you. No rain here, please. I’m about to start having a new rooftop deck installed before the rains start (usually November) and since I’m redoing the interior damage first, no rain, pretty please.
Jul 29, 2005 at 11:26 pm
What a picture. It is hypnotic.