For the last couple of weeks it has rained every afternoon/evening. You can watch the clouds build into thunderstorms through the day. It's not like the desert where you watch the wind sweep the clouds over the valley. It's different... the clouds pile on top of each other as they come over the mountains. It's really amazing. Piles and piles of white down coming up over the ridges. My new place has windows all through and we leave them open all of the time for the breezes. When the clouds finally get too heavy and turn the dark, ominous gray of the storm you can feel the air change. I'll be sitting under the window reading and hear the wind pick up just before the air kisses my skin with bursts that feel like waves of cool water and I know that this is one of the happiest times of my life. I close my eyes and breathe in the air and my kids stop whatever it is they're doing... watching a movie, fighting, reading... and they just stop and feel the air around them and smile as they smell the wet earth. It's inspiring and I want to share it all with everyone but I'm really just not talented enough to make you all feel it.