Petrichor
Earthy Smell Rains Arrived
Splash onto dry soil is like an aerosols, lifting scent in tiny particles carries on the wind, just prior arrival of rain there normally is wind bringing with it the magical earthy smell, you know the rains are arriving.
Not all clouds cry, some build castles above, not all bump heads creating rain bringing relief below, photo indicates majestic white clouds with dark gray streaking clouds lower that more than like will be the ones bump heads with garden waiting in eager anticipation to soak up.
Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird (Pogoniulus bilineatus) peeps shyly around the branch of a tree, identification via facial markings of two distinctive white stripes.
When rain arrives everything rejoices in animal kingdom and plant life to the distinct waft of geosmin, it definitely has a positive affect on everything that moves and lives.
Old World lizard of genus Agama running around the cement collecting up ants escaping from the wet ground, he/she is having a party out there!
In South Africa we have carpenter bees (Xylocopa species) no bumblebees, here pollinating on the Duranta ‘Sapphire Showers’ plant is native to Central America.
Curry Leaf Tree (Murraya koenigii) with it's flowers almost over now popping berries that turn black then fall to the ground and grow.
Excellent for adding to curries for flavour, very medicinal with other properties as well. Baby hoping to grow up perhaps time to place in a pot for growing, later cooking.
With cloud cover today, more comfortable temperature exploring the garden surveying the butterflies enjoying life, this is a tiny little one. Zebra Blues (Leptotes) subfamily of gossamer-winged butterflies, we call them little blues.
Wings open, let's take a peek..., dang a little too little you start to see the blue closer to body.
Yellow-billed kite scooting about under the cloud cover today, moving around searching, constantly looking for it's next meal.
Closing thought is: What is the smell of rain? It’s called petrichor.
Do you experience the odor of rain approaching in your region? Let us know in the comments below, rain always brings with it the joy of living, reviving, refreshing us all.
All photography is my own using Canon Powershot. Any queries or requests please drop a comment below or make contact with me, have a wonderful day! Photography without tripod, go with the flow wherever life takes you.
Thought for Today: "A cloudy sky doesn't always cry rain." African Proverb.
One of the most beautiful and poetic ideas, the smell of rain, on any surface. Apparently, our smell is geared toward picking up the smell of rain, we can identify it among so many other smells. I wrote a poem about it many years ago. I love petrichor. Thank you so much for your wonderful prose.
These are such beautiful images you created with words.
Thanks for kind comment, feelings of joy show through when rains arrive, Oh boy we needed this break from scorching heat of late!
Same here. But we have yet to see any substantial rains. It is not rainy season yet, but some rain would help! Everything is so dried out, and wild fires are causing so many problems.
Summer has been a roller-coaster ride between extreme heat with short breather in between, very little rain, whacking thunderstorms.
Weekend weather.... 34C for Durban tomorrow plus 4C for humidity we will be close to 40C YIKES!
We felt this heat for sure. I sit in an office with direct sunlight, so I felt the heat in all the wrong ways!
Sitting in direct sun not a great idea during summer even under an aircon..... Change the seating perhaps 🙃
It is so strange as a writer I find certain spots where my writing just happens. Unfortunately, this room was one of the rooms that the ideas seemed to naturally flow from. But I need to change a bit yes.
Moon and mood the writing flow, fright and flight we stagnate in freeze off!
So sorry for only responding now, almost two weeks after your reply!
It seemed like the writing just flowed, but I could barely get to everything I needed to get to. Sometimes there are just too few hours in a day.
Every day too few hours for what we wish to accomplish more often than not.
So true, and saying "NO" to someone/something is not always easy. Time management is an important skill, but even with good management there is sometimes too few hours.
Always something to tip the scale in a day, all good intent can sometimes run into a brick wall.
That is the problem right? Helping out can sometimes be detrimental to your own health and life. Saying no at the right time is not an easy skill to acquire.
Never easy to say no, definitely does help once you realize you wasting your time and effort.
For sure. I wish one could know beforehand when time and effort are wasted.
Sorry for only responding now, me and the girlfriend travelled a bit to Parys and Potch, plus I had some nasty deadlines again. .
Never a way of knowing for sure, always have to try first. Parys used to be an amazing place when we were young, Potch as teenagers we had a friend with large chicken farm we visited, another nice place from my youth, now long gone!
My mother grew up in Potch, or she went there to school. Lovely memories, like yours. Some of the places picking up, depending on where you go. Potch and Parys have lovely areas (which we visited) and nice places. But far from what it used to be.
My Dad grew up on a small farm in Redan just outside of Meyerton, walked to school in Meyerton. Crossed rivers to get to school originally under a tree, no bridges, something people forget is how hard the older generation had it.
We used to go down to Henley-on-Klip and Parys where family friends still had properties when young. Wall to wall housing up that way now, or shacks.
Yes, the shack problem in that area is scary. I saw on Google maps just how much it all surrounded Vanderbjil and neighbouring towns. Having driven through a couple of these towns, it is sad to see the decay.
Even though they had it hard, it made them stronger. Today, our youth is spoonfed so much that even the tiniest bit of hard work freaks them out. Such a sad state of affairs.
We keep going one day at a time in hope of change through vote, it is about the only thing we can do. Youth will have to learn to stand on their own two feet soon enough or go without.
I am so sorry for only responding now. The last two weeks were hectic. I thought I would be able to cope under all the stress, but soon the body failed and gave warning signs that I am not super human.
So true, through voting we can begin to ask for change. Even though slow process, it is the only real thing we can do.
Weeks are crammed here as well, from one thing to the next we push on, take a break pressure builds quickly of late.
Have a great day and a good week ahead hopefully.
It seems again like this time of year I am not able to juggle all of the balls well. I have so many submission dates and deadlines, it is not a very period! I am so sorry for the long wait in response. The harder I try to manage my time, the worse it gets. Hopefully, all is well and good on your side. Stay safe!
The flying beetle turned out well!
Carpenter bee is a plump fellow, we don't get to see them often.
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What I love most is the smell of the first drops of rain falling on the hot earth.
This lizard is a winner!🙂
Smell is what we have arrive first, slowly it arrives to dampen the parched earth, after the rainfall a lovely clean fresh smell explodes.
Lizards this year, quite a few in the garden, must have plenty of food to satisfy them although very territorial between each other.
Now I've learnt a new word! I love the smell of rain coming, but it's been very shy, only teasing us with a fine drizzle, all the time. At least the plants are getting gentle showers not so. I'm afraid of the heavy rain that is bound to still come.
I thought we would be clobbered with thunder and lightning after extreme winds, lucky it only happened over the ocean.
Not enough rain yet to fully soak the ground, hopefully more to come.
Nice you have rain. I’m sure you are enjoying the cooling the rain brings.
Lovely photos. Glad to see lizard enjoying eating the ants.
Great to see you again and all is well, enjoying Winter hopefully no crazy storms.
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