There’s supposed to be isolated thunderstorms all day. All I know is it looks gloomy out there. I saw lightning flash and heard the thunder crack earlier this morning. Right on queue a sudden shower came down.

When I was a kid I used to love the thunderstorms that would appear out of nowhere in the middle of a hot day. The streets would be well warmed from the morning sun and the rain would steam as it struck the asphalt. The puddles that collected on the road would be warm and I’d run barefooted through them drenching myself in the summer rain. Simple pleasures for a carefree child.

There is something calming and exciting about rain I cannot describe or fully understand. I still enjoy the rain, but I don’t often run through the puddles. I watch the rain from a dry vantage point. I try to find a pattern to the density of the rainfall. If you look closely you can see that the rainfall moves across the land like waves across water.