Rain blessings

Rain rhythms :

 'and with rainy eyes. Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth'.
From Richard ll by William Shakespeare.

It rains in my heart
As it rains on the town:
What is this languorous ache
That wounds my heart?

Gentle, the sound of rain
Battering roof and ground.
How sweet the sound of rain
For the heart in pain!

Paul Verlaine / Translated by Manu Bazzano (Zen Poems) MQ Publications Ltd.

Fruit blessings

Double helpings of gorgeousness while making mandalas. Pretty pictures on fruitwrappers and delicious fruit to eat. Particularly liked the stalk still on some of the fruit, a link with the person who wrapped the fruit so carefully, so that it arrived with all its sunshine intact. Thank you Spanish soil, sun etc.

oops! camera strap wanted to get in the shot too!