Rainy Days

Hoping we won't get rained out of our weekly walk and brunch this week, but the cold gray rain keeps on pouring down... Drizzle made an icy companion at the bus stop last night waiting to return home after my long teaching day in the City. Cloudcover makes the short days of winter seem shorter still, day after day. Nice to think of the snowpack and reservoirs getting plump and replenished before drought and fireseason wreak their climate-catastrophizing hellfire next summer and fall, but still it's a bit depressing to be housebound in this damp winter dark week after week, I honestly don't know how folks in Portland and Seattle cope.