It Was Supposed To Rain

It was supposed to rain last night. The weathermen had storm warnings posted, and I can only imagine the colorful graphics they must have presented on the evening news. Thunder and lightning, they said. A possibility of hail.

But the rain did not come or the thunder or the lightning. And the bombarding hail we had a few weeks ago was evidently enough for a while.

The rain did not come, although we were looking forward to it, for the ground is getting dry and hard, and summer has begun to loom its hot head over the horizon.

Although the trees and shrubs and perennials needed it and although the new stone terrace in the front is ready to hold the running water back, the rain did not come.

It did not come last night, and today the sky is a cloudless blue, and a blustery wind is blowing out of the north, and those storms the weathermen saw on their radar screens are certainly long gone by now.

It was supposed to rain last night but did not. Maybe next time.

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