Cloudy with a chance of spring

From the fourth floor, this was my view of a rainy, Philadelphia sky last week. There was such a contrast between the pure gray sky, hanging mist on the hills and the abundant signs of spring below me. That's how spring goes.

Every spring is the only spring - a perpetual astonishment. Ellis Peters

See more astonishing skies from just about everywhere @ Skywatch Friday.

Don't forget your umbrella!

Weather is a great metaphor for life - sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, and there's nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella.

Pepper Giardino

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Rain falling on the Midway at the University of Chicago, Hyde Park, in the summer of 2006, my last summer there. I took this photo from the law library looking northwest toward the city.

Another rainy day in Washington, D.C. last March. About l/4 of Erica and her umbrella can be seen as we wandered in Georgetown while she was on spring break. The photo below is a small rain washed garden between buildings.

ABC Wednesday, Round 3, has reached the letter 'R' this week. For more interesting R photos, visit Mrs Nesbitt here.

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