The Rain

With warm bright sunny mornings, we normally wake and get up early, but this morning the sky was looking particularly grey, and the air was refreshingly cool, so we enjoyed an unusually slow start to our day and a very welcome lay in.

Once up, Brian decided he wanted to check on the pool. So off he went up the slope whilst I was preparing breakfast. Minutes later he texted me, ‘Can you close the windows, there is a massive rain cloud heading our way’. He had decided to take some photos of the grapes whilst he was up there, as the vineyard borders directly onto the back of our property. As he looked up he could see the rain in the distance, and he knew it would be falling on us very soon.

After such high temperatures, we were actually really pleased to see rain again, as everyone and everything was in need of it - the vignerons, the farmers, the gardeners, the rivers, the wildlife. The forecast is a few days of unsettled weather, but it’s going to be more humid, as it’s still warm.

The rain was both a wonderful sight and lovely feeling, it really freshened the air up.