Garden in the rain

The birds and critters and flowers are happy this morning because a nice gentle rain is falling. You can almost hear the slurping. That figures, I wasted an hour yesterday watering everything!

People assume it's "always raining" in Seattle, but in fact the summers are quite dry, with weeks and sometimes months without much rain.  Very few houses have sprinkler systems, so the lawns stop growing and turn brown and crispy in August.  With the fall rain, the grass greens up again for the entire winter-- the opposite of most other places.