Sublime Sunday: It's Raining. Again! - But Once Again, All Is Not Lost ~ Some More Silver Linings To The Rain-Soaked Clouds of Deluge ~ Original Photography and Somewhat Long Discussion About Another Wet Sunday ~

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Ah, Another Sunday - Another Rainstorm

Last week on Sublime Sunday, we discussed the rain falling from the sky, and the many positive things it brings to our world. And guess what. It rained again THIS Sunday.

But I'm looking once more onto the bright side of this wet weather. We definitely need the rain. We're WAY behind in the water year, and though it can be a pain, I still like the wet stuff. There are many things to appreciate, all the while that you are outside, getting wet.

Let's get started.

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"Do We HAVE To?"

"Let's Not Be Hasty Here--With All This Going Outside Business

Once again, Stinky the Cat is my outdoor barometer. I woke up rather late, wandered around the house, looked outside to see what was going on, and then decided to crawl back under the covers to ponder what could be accomplished on such a rainy day.

While I was wandering the living room, Stinky the Cat had other ideas. She set up some serious leisure-shop in the down comforter and other fuzzy, inviting wonder-blankets of joy. Sigh. I figured it was time to get things moving with the day after all. SHE didn't move for the next couple of hours.

If we have any choice in these matters, I think I want to come back to Earth as a cat...and live with people that firmly believe in nice, comfy blankets.

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The Perfect, Weed-Free Garden

Last week we discussed how nicely the rain cleaned out the gutter system of a house. This week, we see another advantage of the rain/gutter dynamics of home ownership. The Natural Gutter Garden. All you need is a bit of self-depositing muck to set up in the gutter, some rainfall, and you can grow some pretty nice, edible plants up there.

This gutter garden is down the street from the house. I think this is Purple Dead Nettle. And I think it's edible too. Though growing way up there, it might be full of tin and roofing asphalt and other odd things that will make you glow in the dark if you eat them. So maybe we'll just call it a high altitude, showy flower garden, and call it 'good'.

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Cousin What'sit LOVES The Rain

A friend gave me this weeping pussy willow tree a few years back. After FULLY abusing it. She dug it up, left it sitting on the ground in the hot sun of August for a week or so, then threw it in the trunk of her car and forgot about it. Later she gave it to me. I stuck it in the ground, and wouldn't you know it, Cousin What'sit grew like there was no tomorrow.

Rain rain rain. It does wonders for neglected plants. The cats love this 'tree' too, and hang out underneath its boughs when it rains. Talk about some level of irony.

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Not So Close To Home

Down By The Riverside

Ah, biking down by the river. And it was WET. But this activity gives great views through the trees, when falling moisture from the sky lets up now and then. And as long as you can keep from drowning out the camera, it offers some pretty nice views of the river through the foggy rain. People used to smear Vaseline on their lens to get this kind of cosmic effect. All I need is a bit of heavy dew from above.

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A Little Dirt In The Water Is Good For You

All this rain re-replenishes the river system. And gives us a bunch more water to drink. Never mind that it's chock full of sediment from the mountains. But that can be filtered out. Just don't try to swim or boat in the river at this time, unless you know what you're doing. I once saw the Salmon River in Idaho running at 107,000 cubic feet/second. THAT was impressive. This is a whole lot more tame, but STILL exciting if you fall in. I didn't, so on we go to more positive, rainfall adventures.

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Mini-Fairyland Extraordinaire

The mushrooms LOVE rain. I'm not sure what these are called, besides white, rather small and cute. They're growing up and out of a Douglas Fir cone. How cool is that?

I have no idea if you can eat these or not. Well -- I guess technically, you can eat ANYTHING that will fit in your mouth. So that's not a very good measure. Maybe we should say -- I don't know if you SHOULD eat them. I don't plan on finding out one way or the other, by trying them. So we'll just stick to laying on the ground, getting wet, and taking their picture.

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"Beam Us Up, Scotty. It's WET Down Here"

I wonder what ducks think when it rains? "Ooh, more water!" I'm not sure it gets much deeper than that. It's a lot like when we humans step out of the house, look around, breathe in, and exclaim, "ooh, more oxygen." So I don't think the ducks have any thought about this rain thing after all. They're born naturally waterproof, and float around on a water surface really really well. A major deluge from above is nothing more than a small, vertical river to a duck.

How different is this than with we humans?! It rains hard, and we get excitedly bummed, then pull out all sorts of stay-dry accoutremon' from the closet. Rain coat, rain pants, sou'wester, galoshes, gloves, snacks, umbrella. Just to run around in the rain and act like a duck.

All a duck does is waddle out of the river onto 'dry' land, look up to the sky, shrug, do his or her duck thing, then go back to the river. It's like any other day floating about. Horizontal, vertical, rain, lake, river...it's all the same. WET.

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A Visual Pot Of Gold

A break in the rain, a little sun, and vwaalaah. A GORGEOUS rainbow. Where would we be in the visuo-photographic world without rain. We would not get the ever-charming rainbow. I've followed rainbows before, just to see what exciting treasure was at the end. Most thrilling thing I discovered to date was a big old sign for a Kitchen Supply store. So much for the true magic of life. Pot of gold at the end or not, I still love a good rainbow during a break in the storm.

You can barely see that this one is trying to put out another rainbow, to rainbow left. On this day it never transpired beyond this look. Have you ever seen a triple? I'm not sure how many rainbows together are possible. Let me know if you have the answer to this weather-related riddle.

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The French Cuisine-ists Got Nothin' On The Northwest

One of the biggest advantages of the heavy rains out our way, is that we can grow larger things in the realm of water-based nature. Think of it as a really wet Texas. Our trees are huge, our bushes are bushier, our worms are impressive, and our snails are world-class.

Such as the coveted Yellow-Striped Garden Gargantua Gastropod. A 200+ pound, shelled mollusk native to this area. You can tell how large they get by this photo-though this is just a 'small' one-weighing in at about 40 pounds. For perspective, that's a a normal-sized, concrete picnic table the Y-SGGG is gliding about on. The larger snails could eat a small dog, if they could catch one.

This is also a great place to practice your close-up, perspective photography. In the rain, where native snails wander about. Slowly.

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Start Up The John Deere. Again.

Imagine. All this rain, and the grass just keeps on growing. So I'm NEVER bored. If I run out of things to post and do on Steemit, or in other aspects of life (??), I can always mow the grass. No finer joy was had by all.

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This concludes our second discussion as to why we should all like the rain, and hang out in it as much as possible, whenever possible. It just makes sense to me. Please remember your galoshes and bright yellow Sou'wester. After all, we're not ducks.

I hope your Sublime Sunday was as enjoyable as mine. And Happy Monday, rain or not, coming up very fast and all too soon. Cheers.

~ Finto ~

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_{Posted: 04/30/2018 @ 02:15}

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Excerpts From Late-Night Conversations With A Mechanical Cat

Fact Number 66