rain and cloud

After a sunny June and a fairly sunny April and May, the rain has returned to Wales. Mornings of drizzle followed by afternoons of deluges and evenings of light patter. Never realized how many kinds and qualities of rain there can be. A few days ago the rain was so tiny and faint that the droplets were alive, buzzing and drifting like insects rather than like water.

Today after a morning and afternoon of writing I hiked up to Town Hill, behind our apartment. From the edge of Uplands I could see I'd be walking into the cloud which covered the top of the hill. But its interesting because as you walk up it doesn't look like cloud--but it rains harder and harder. It was wet, but beautiful--looking at the wet beach and the ocean far below. Waves of rain rolling up the hill over the trees.