We're back...

....from a long ago planned vacation. It was lovely. We left this...


...and came home to this (taken this morning from my bedroom window).


I love rain storms, so I'm quite delighted by all this inclement weather. I love that it will make our otherwise brown California hillsides a vibrant, glorious green (if only for a few weeks). Were it not for the fact that we came home to a roof leak causing water to seep through our living room walls and under the floor boards which are now buckling, I'd probably be outside with a cup of coffee under an umbrella (have you ever done that?) rather than in here soaking up water with bath towels.

I am so very happy to have it though, this small inconvenience. I've been blessed with a few of them recently. God doesn't often give me these kinds of gifts, and I was feeling a terrible guilt last week - being in a lovely place with those I love most while watching nightly of the suffering in Haiti.

Oooh, the towels are soaked again. I'll be back when I can.