| Beauty in the Rain If you fancy that you have an eye for beauty, test it on a rainy day....... a cold and foggy day that wears no make-up. Test it in the shades of gray that consume the sun and rob the flowers of their colors, leaving them forlorn in dingy places like tired and aging ballerinas in faded dancing clothes; huddling in the drafty wings of empty opera houses. Gaze across the rooftops and the chimneys, painted like Utrillo's Paris on the canvas of the smoke and fog of a dying afternoon in winter. It takes no eye for beauty to find it on a lovely day. It thrusts itself upon you in the sunshine and the warm. But it hides; becomes aloof, elusive in the cold and in the rain. -- Jim Metcalf In Some Quiet Place |
| Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. -- John Ruskin |
| Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them? -- Rose Kennedy |
| Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. -- Langston Hughes |
| Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. -- John Updike |
| People are like stained glass windows; they sparkle and shine when the sun's out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light within. -- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross |
| And these words of wisdom from my 3 year old granddaughter, Sarah: When you get a rainy day, you should always run through the puddles. Nancy :-) |
| Beauty in the Rain |