the rain

the rain came today. they've been telling me it would be here all week and i cannot remember the last time i saw it. today the rain showed up. i love the smell it brings with it, fresh and clean, full of life. spring is on its way, i can feel it in the air. it is a time where all nature seems to rejoice in its birth to a renewed life, promising the warmth of color and sunshine. it only seems appropiate that as my wipers rhythmically accompaning me into the office, i saw my first budding tree of the season. it was a pear tree, they are always the first to arrive on the spring scene. it usually puts forth its snowy blossoms at a date when snow can hardly be assumed to be a thing entirely of the past and i always fear for them a late freeze. before long, we'll see the daffodiles and azaleas, roses and lillies, tulips and daisies. [excuse the floral design class influence in me] but i'll wait for the color, i'll wait for the warmth. today, i will enjoy caedmon's call new tunes playing through my ears and the rain falling outside my window.
i will enjoy this moment; the world is waking up with me.