Ever the Rain .....

I suffered for my art today, in the wind and rain running in rivulets off my raincoat into borrowed boots Took a lot of close ups of very soggy things in and around the garden. Not one of them worked, too difficult to hold the camera still, what with shivering convulsively and being buffeted by the wind. Back indoors, getting changed into dry clothes, quickly snapped this view, quick trip to Gimp and voila! a different sort of view to be sure, but kinda suitable for today.

The Rain and the Wind

The rain and the wind, the wind and the rain -
They are with us like a disease:
They worry the heart, they work the brain,
As they shoulder and clutch at the shrieking pane,
And savage the helpless trees.

What does it profit a man to know
These tattered and tumbling skies
A million stately stars will show,
And the ruining grace of the after-glow
And the rush of the wild sunrise?

Ever the rain - the rain and the wind!
Come, hunch with me over the fire,
Dream of the dreams that leered and grinned,
Ere the blood of the Year got chilled and thinned,
And death came on desire!

William Ernest Henley (1849-1903).