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last few weeks it has been raining generously, to the point that for the most part you haven't really been able to see much of the landscape through the mist and the rain curtains. this evening the sun has begun to peer timidly from behind multiple tears in the broken clouds.
and well- wow. I don't think I had seen anything like this in well over 2 (3?) years. the trees are green and exuberant and flamboyant and- well the foliage and greenery in general. like in that dream I wrote about. profuse, lavish, pompous; green, overwhelmingly green. I would say they looked like they do in the pictures on the internet, if it weren't because the narrow colorspace of the display devices I own couldn't possibly hope to adequately recreate their ruthlessly green color.
the old folks from around the place say it used to always be like this way back when. mild golden autumns, cold windy winters, extremely rainy springs and warm stormy summers. not dry and hot all year round, with mild winters and scorching summers; brown forests atop meters of salt dry topsoil that will spark ablaze if you look at them wrong.
nowadays it is rapidly becoming the exception rather than the rule. I guess we have to enjoy it while it lasts.