{"id":9881,"date":"2016-11-29T21:05:52","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T02:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=9881"},"modified":"2018-03-15T10:31:51","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T14:31:51","slug":"the-color-of-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=9881","title":{"rendered":"The color of rain"},"content":{"rendered":"

I woke up at 4 a.m. And listened.<\/p>\n

What was that sound?<\/p>\n

I wasn’t sure. I hoped. I got up. And there it was.<\/p>\n

Rain.<\/p>\n

Finally<\/em>.<\/p>\n

We’ve had less than 4 inches of rain in the last four months; normally we’d have gotten 16 inches.<\/p>\n

The last real rain, of more than an inch, was September 19.<\/p>\n

Over and over I’d seen rain forecasted, and then it would evaporate in the boiling sun. I lived in fear of fire<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, the sky looked like it meant business. \u00a0The temperature dropped and the air was moist. I took a long walk and I could feel the water waiting to fall. The breeze felt like cold cream on my face.<\/p>\n

Still it held off.<\/p>\n

Now, at 4 a.m., my eyes could finally relax, staring at the black reflection on the patio. I listened to that beautiful music, those waterfall rhythms, and went back to bed.<\/p>\n

I couldn’t sleep, but it didn’t matter. I just listened.<\/p>\n

When it was finally light enough, I went outside just to look. The birds were chirping with delight.<\/p>\n

I took photos of wet leaves to capture their palette.<\/p>\n

\"wet\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\"wet<\/p>\n

Here’s a series\u00a0of palettes I’ve made from nature photos, including those two, which are on the top row.<\/p>\n

\"rain-palettes\"<\/p>\n

The purple splotch\u00a0is a beauty berry plant<\/a>. Apart from that, the rain-soaked leaves have the most vivid palette.<\/p>\n

And all that color came from this gray sky.<\/p>\n

\"rainy<\/p>\n

As we drove to Tom’s appointments today, the views were filled with brilliant reds, oranges and yellows. The colors popped under their shiny clear raincoats.<\/p>\n

\"rain-red\"<\/p>\n

I’ve missed this so much.<\/p>\n

Today’s penny is a 2007, the year of North Georgia’s previous drought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I woke up at 4 a.m. And listened. What was that sound? I wasn’t sure. I hoped. I got up. And there it was. Rain. Finally. We’ve had less than 4 inches of rain in the last four months; normally we’d have gotten 16 inches. The last real rain, of more than an inch, was … read more The color of rain<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[321],"tags":[35,82,355,400,179,426,141],"class_list":["post-9881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tress","tag-art","tag-beauty","tag-color","tag-leaves","tag-nature","tag-palette","tag-rain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9881"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9893,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9881\/revisions\/9893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}