Clouds and rain

It was another cloudy, wet and miserable day today. Not to worry though, with my waterproofs and a cheery umbrella I still managed to get out and play for a while ... I don't think Mummy was quite as keen though!


"I am the daughter of Earth and Water,
And the nursling of the Sky;
I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores;
I change, but I cannot die.
For after the rain when with never a stain
The pavilion of Heaven is bare,
And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams
Build up the blue dome of air,
I silently laugh at my own cenotaph,
And out of the caverns of rain,
Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb,
I arise and unbuild it again."

(Percy Bysshe Shelley - from The Cloud)