The Rainy Season

How beautiful is the rain!
After the dust and heat,
In the broad and fiery street,
In the narrow lane,
How beautiful is the rain!
How it clatters along the roofs
Like the tramp of hoofs!
How it gushes and struggles out
From the throat of the overflowing spout!
Across the window-pane
It pours and pours;
And swift and wide,
With a muddy tide,
Like a river down the gutter roars
The rain, the welcome rain!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A typical Autumnal morning here in south Wales, with banks of mist skirting the contours cast by the tree line.
It looked set to be a fine day with the initial glimpse of blue sky, but that was soon to change!