Red Echo

September 25, 2014

Ready for Rain:
Why Seattleites Crave the End of Summer

It’s not simply the arrival of rain, but the transition to a different environment and way of life. The drear has a certain dark beauty; a low-contrast softness. There’s no need to squint or close the blinds. Even the sound of the rain on our house is music to my ears, a lullaby.

3 Comments

  1. Comment by foxtongue — September 26, 2014 @ 10:30 am

  2. http://gifsec.com/wp-content/uploads/GIF/2014/03/Alone-in-the-rain-GIF.gif

    (Hmm, apparently your comments cannot parse html. Noted).

    Comment by foxtongue — September 26, 2014 @ 10:30 am

  3. Yes, spammers do horrible things with HTML, so I leave it disabled, and of course I approve every commenter before they get to post.

    Comment by Mars Saxman — September 26, 2014 @ 2:57 pm