Raindrops on Roses.....Celebrating Rain...Fond Memories

 

Above My Wet Double Delight Rose

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens

Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens

Brown paper packages tied up with strings

These are a few of my favorite things

Ah!! Yes Maria's Lyrics from the Sound of Music, The song... My Favorite Things..I remember this was my first ever big cinema experience.

Are you singing with me?

     

This is not my photo above but I borrowed it because of those gorgeous little whiskers were so perfect here. The top photo is mine and shows Fuzzy curled up in a ball doing the cat nap thing.

 

Wonderful memories all brought together in a song.....So was perfect!!!!

 

Not enough rain to keep us from those dreaded water restrictions this summer. Dams nowhere near capacity, and we are into spring and already north winds have come and dried out the soils even more. I live in South Australia and because of our geo graphics rain is always so important to us all.  So, that wonderful sound of pitter patter on the tin roof of my childhood home would always bring joy to my mother who loved her garden and fought so hard to keep it all growing. We on the other hand had different ideas. Down to the creek we would scamper to watch the water twirl and swirl,  and on the way slipping and sliding down the hillside that was by this time  quite wet under foot  with little rivulets all running this way and that in order to also reach the creek in the valley below.  Ah! memories, do children still do this? I hope so.

 

Rain conjures up so many images and thoughts, and another song comes to my mind. We have a singer in Australia called Johny Farnham. You may or may not have heard of him? Anyway one of his great songs from way back when, was a song called Rain Drops Keep Falling On My Head, you may remember it as a theme song from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid..great movie.  Anyway I will share a few lines from that song here too.

 

"Raindrops keep falling on my head.



And just like the guy who's feet are too big for his bed, nothing seems to fit, those raindrops are falling on my head, they keep falling."

 

You see for some, rain drops are annoying, in fact for many they can be downright devastating, and I don't need to take you to the depths here because usually after the rain drops we can always see the sunshine and the beautiful rainbow, natures theatre in progress.

 

Now that brings me back to my Beautiful Rose photo above.

Feeling the rain coming through for days before it finally arrived and then smelling it as it started to pour from the heavens. I thought of my first roses for the season and my  instinct was to grab my camera. So out I went to capture the new rain on my beautiful double delight roses and from the photo above you will see it was worth capturing that moment in a rain drops cycle.

 

 

So for me .........

Wow this one is one of mine too.
 

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens

Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens

Brown paper packages tied up with strings

These are a few of my favorite things

 

God Bless You All

 

Milli

Foot note
This Summer 2010 and so far we have had a much better rain fall than usual. There are still many more days to go until we have spring here and if the rain keeps up, that will mean our restrictions for use might remain at the lower end of the scheme. Last summer was tragic for many gardens through lack of water however the trees and shrubs that did survive seem to be doing quite well, so far.

I have included this little post from a few years ago into Pete's Picks 'Memories' for this week.

I hope that you don't mind me reminiscing about one of my fondest memories, that being the sound of rain on the old tin roof as I was growing up in the hills as a child. That smell of water settling on the dry leaves and hot earth on the ground and the subsequent relief that came from these much needed rains always evoke such a pleasant memory for me.

Pete's Picks Here.