This year the rains came early, starting the day after the men came to begin stripping and resurfacing my roofs. The day after they were supposed to remove the skylight, hurricane-force winds and torrential rains made me glad for once, that they had been no-shows. A month later, the repairs are over and we’ve settled into the daily or nightly showers. I am snug in my house and the mountains behind me are covered with a vivid green. Soon water will be shooting in rivers down the arroyos and cobblestone roads that lead down to the lake from my house and every teja will serve as its own channel for individual rios streaming down from my roof into waterfalls that will arc down to the terrace tiles below.
The rainy season
breaks its usual habit.
A rude early guest.
For dVerse Poets.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Absolutely charming descriptors! The mountains in a vivid green gives your readers a sense of longing and of security.
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I should take photos. They are brown during our hot summers, then turn vivid Ireland green very quickly during the rainy season, which came a month early this year.
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Like Monet – shoot the same scene in every season. Our rainy season came early this year, too. Last year the lakes were low in time for the hurricanes. This year, there’s no place for the water to go. Must mean we won’t have any tropical storms.
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This is a marvelous Haibun and so descriptive.
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Thanks, Chaos. Glad you enjoyed it.Thanks, Chaos.
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You can call me Linda if you like.
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Nice description of the waterfalls coming from the tiled roofs and leading into rivers.
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You seem to have seamlessly blended a tale of blessings and curses — nice!
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Rains are indeed a rude early guest ~ Love the place and time of your prose ~
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The power of that rain comes across in your writing. You describe it so vividly.
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It’s a wonderful Haibun. I especially liked your being able to sit at last in a dry house and watch it fall. Thank God for no shows
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Any rain we see will come in the form of parallel drips off the roof! We did get some high clouds as a result of your storms, though — every bit of moisture helps!
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So much better to experience the rainy season snug in your house, Judy. I love that the mountains are covered with a vivid green and that the rainy season is a rude early guest!.
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Lovely, Judy. The weather has been topsy-turvy this year.
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A rainy spring seems aggravating to us, but brings great results for our local farmers!
Dwight
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An excellent kigo to include….the rainy season! I think of the monsoon season….and the wonderful movie Monsoon Wedding. 🙂
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Loved that movie. Also Muriel’s Wedding and My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
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I love the transformation of the mountains you describe… and to see it from the comfort from your house. Glad the repairs got done.
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Love the “rude early guest” line at the end! Perfect.
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Your rude visitor would be our honored guest!
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The weather has definitely not been behaving this year!
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I can’t remember any year in recent history that it has. It just keeps getting worse and worse.
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