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I love what the spring rain does to the colors outside my windows. It is raining in Stockholm today and I was sitting in a meeting, listening to a colleague complain about the weather, and I thought: I can’t understand this. Yes, with the non-stop clouds and rain in November, but now? The moisture gives the greens and the browns so much depth, the needles of the pine and the buds on the ash tree almost ready to burst. Little white willow catkins catching the light. On my evening run, birds singing and a faint earth smell, families of hepatica bright purple and blue among the decaying leaves. The air feeling clean, after a day of light rain. No. I like this.
And it’s only going to get better. With warmth, comes the after-rainfall-smells. Like the fragrant International Rose Test Garden in Portland, a rainy day in June almost nine years ago.
Photo: International Rose Test Garden in Washington Park, Portland, Oregon, USA, June 2012. Posted on Instagram March 31, 2021.
Katja Malmborg 