Snow Melt

It Rained

The rain began before dawn. It began slowly a few gentle drops falling onto the dry thirsty ground. As the sun rose, the rain increased in volume but not in speed. It continue to rain gently all day long until the sunset behind gray clouds.

As the day passed, the rain soaked into the thirsty desert soil....

The young Lord Calder stood under a lone tree watching the rain fall. Watching the hard packed ground soften as it drink the sweet cold winter rain. This is how it must have rained the day I was born, he thought. No wonder my mother named me Rain. Father always said I was too much like my mother and the rain to rule his lands.

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It rained
in slow gently cold drops all day
from sunrise to sunset
and the city moved
slowing only enough to taste
the rain.

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It rained today in Las Vegas. It started slowly, but continued raining gently all day. Las Vegas traffic doesn't stop for anything, except a backup on the interstate. Traffic light cause a pause in the traffics movement, but doesn't stop it all together. Rain, may flood the streets, however it doesn't stop the traffic. Las Vegas traffic moves through all kinds of weather and all types of rain. Nothing can stop the city, nothing can stop the tourist, the city lives and moves day in and day out. The city moves and lives in all kinds of weather.

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I'm not sure where any of these beginnings are going, but they are a start. Beginnings like doors always lead somewhere, even when one has no map or any idea which direction one is moving in.