Rainy Monday

It rained and rained and rained and rained all day long.  Hardly let up.  Such a change from the heat of July.   On Facebook I wrote, "Karen Carpenter sang that rainy days and Mondays always get her down.  Not me!  I'm loving this rainy Monday--the petrichor (a pleasant smell that frequently accompanies the first rain after a long period of warm, dry weather), the sound, the refreshing wetness, how all the plants are looking extraordinarily happy.  I've got every window in the house thrown open, and the sliding glass door too.  The kids are less enthusiastic.  They are watching TV wrapped in blankets."  I should have taken a picture, but I didn't.