If you live in a moderate climate, where you don’t get snow, but you do get rain, then you know how special those sunny days just after a winter’s rain are. The havoc and destruction caused by rain, wind, high surf, and whatever else Nature deems to throw at us can leave our neighborhoods in chaos.
It’s hard to run outside when the rain is falling vertically. Or when there are rivers of fast flowing water careening down the sidewalks.
So, we brave the rain and get our runs in, but it is the sunlight we wait impatiently for. It is the bright skies that will bring joy back into our runs.
And in the following weeks after a big rainstorm, there are waterfalls! You can’t wait too long to go and find them, for in the San Francisco Bay Area, many of these waterfalls will disappear by late spring, only to return next winter.
You may have snow now, but those waterfalls will arrive, maybe a bit later with the snow melt. So, you know when the time to go find them will be.
It is one of the joys of life, and one very important lesson we must remember: it may get stormy, and dark and there may be hard times when it seems like we’ll never ese the sun again. But we will, and there will be waterfalls.