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taken with a Polaroid Square Shooter from my old apartment in Dormont, peel-apart 80 film
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Its a dreary, rainy Monday here in Southwestern Pennsylvania. I must admit, however, that I am one of those people who truly enjoys a good rain every once in a while. There's something cozy about the pitter patter of raindrops against a surface that makes one feel snug and secure and at home. Perhaps I just speak for myself. But for me, it changes my perspective; there's a kind of cathartic cleansing, a clean feeling that emerges as you see twigs and leaves and cigarette butts and rubbage washed into the rain gutter and carried away. The change of seasons always brings on some sense of nostalgia in me, like a promise. I feel the urge to put on some jazz, wrap myself in a sweater, sip spiced tea and wiggle my toes into thick socks and read the day away.
I've decided to go ahead and post some rainy day photographs that I've taken over the years, as rain has always seemed to inspire and comfort me, in some way or another. Here's to a rainy day or two...
xoxo km
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| "Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you." - Langston Hughes |
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"Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life."
John Updike |
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| "Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky". -Arna Bontemps | | |
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| “The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | |
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"Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet."
Roger Miller |
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| trash in a puddle; taken with an old Polaroid SX-70, 600 film with ND filter |
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| "How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home." -Wiliam Faulkner |
