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Rain, Rain: Please Stay!

by | Jun 26, 2025 | Environment, Rain, Reports and Forecasts, Seasons, Spring, Summer, Weather

Raindrops on bright orangey-red flower petals in June.

So YES … maybe it is a little gloomy at the end of June, but this rain is *delicious* and we need it so much.

Little wet maple leaves in the foreground looking out on our deck at today’s rain in Western Washington.

For the first day of summer on the calendar, they predicted some kind of a deluge, but we didn’t get anything close. Sure, it sprinkled a little. There were maybe a few moments that qualified as “rain”. But not even enough to wet your whistle after all the dry weeks and months.

I love how the edges of everything appear outlined in silver-grey rimlight, & this oceanspray blooming now & other flowering white things POP under rainy grey skies & next to super-saturated spring greens.

I am so happy it is grey and damp today and even dripping wet in some places with overhangs.

We need more days like this to qualify as the same Pacific Northwest Puget Sound region I grew up in.

Won’t need the black mesh door screen *today*, but love how it amplifies the fuzzy-with-static rainy atmosphere vibes: everything shrouded in seductive shimmery silver drizzle.

I wish this wetness would go on and on for days on end. That we’d never have to worry about forest fires and smoke caused by men. That somehow this rain could put all the destructive people into a safe, soft trance … even if only for the summer season. Just … let them take a long nap, and make it keep raining.