The last couple of weeks have seen a real mix of weather – typically autumnal. At times it’s been absolutely hammering it down here. After what feels like an impossibly long spell of parched heat, in the last week we’ve had some marvellous rainstorms.
These rains have freshened the tired summer greens as though they’ve suddenly been woken up and sparked into life again. As summer drifts into autumn, we’re suddenly presented with the lusciousness of spring.
The heat had left me both mentally and physically exhausted, but I’m finally reviving a little. Autumn, like spring, is a season of change and I’m feeling the effects.
I’m also celebrating the return of mud. No doubt in the depths of Winter I’ll be sick of the stuff, but right now it appears like a magical substance. To walk upon ground that gives, ground that reacts other than by producing a puff of dust, is magical.
Even the birds seem more chipper.
Mick Canning 
I believe this is the first time I remember someone celebrating mud! Good for you that’s great, it’s a treat to beat your feet…!
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Hooray for mud, Robert. (Although that may come back to haunt me later in the year.)
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Apparently as much a treat for Mick as for those lucky enough to experience the Mississippi mud!
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So true. Everything was yellow. As I grew up in Greece, I always think of rain as a miracle.
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It definitely is!
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Same here, I grew up in the north of England and lived through lots and lots of rain as a child. But after moving to Spain, and especially during the last few years of climate change, I now see rain as a magical force.
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I don’t think I realised you were in Spain – what part?
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Studied in Granada/ Madrid, then moved to Mallorca, spent two years recently in the Canaries and back in Mallorca again…… on the subject of rain, it is actually raining here now – and despite its inconveniences, I am happy to see the rain again!
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I’ve had one trip to Mallorca – arrived in Palma and went straight up to Soller and spent the week walking the mountains and villages around there. Beautiful! And I love Granada!
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Today’s what’s known around here as ‘fall day’ — the first time the temperature falls below 70F/21C at night. It won’t last, but it’s a sign of the coming change, and we’re all ready for it!
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Ah, those hot nights are something I’m also not keen on.
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We had a bit of rain this morning – actually more like a heavy mist but it felt good, Generally Sept and Oct are dry and we have to contend with wildfires.I can’t do the heat either.
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We’re still in the dry season here, although the temps are dropping from the August heat. It a few months it’ll be, “what’s that bright thing up in the sky?”
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I know what you mean, Dave. If the last few years are anything to go by our winter will be one long round of rain and thick cloud.
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Hi Mick, I well understand the glory of rain after drought. Wonderful!
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A year ago we were celebrating the return of mud. A brutal, dry, rainless 40 days and nights or so. I get welcoming back the stuff, and I get the birds being more chipper as well!
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