Heralds of Spring Rain

Heralds of Spring Rain, originally uploaded by TomRaven.

There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
- Sara Teasdale

We have had exactly 3.5mm of rain in the last 6 weeks, an unusually long hot and sunny Spring... and then last weekend at sunset the rainclouds gathered and the spring rains fell :-)

* Pentax K20D and Pentax SMC DA 18-55mm Lens - 3 shot HDR