Rain with the Pleasant Smell......

                     Rain with the Pleasant Smell......

The rain is been always cherished specially the smell which come and go. More than one smell actually. The usual after-rain sort of earthy clay-like smell was there, but mixed with others. Like the breezes from between the damp leaves still hiding in the corners of playgrounds. The wet pavement smell was prevalent in and around the neighborhoods with all their sidewalks and streets. Though, it should be said that newly paved streets and old crackly streets have distinctly different smells. They all sort of mix together in the heavier parts of a breeze. Which is where all the best scents can be found. At other times moist garbage could be smelled it is though unpleasant.

Right when the ground is still wet and the sky is still gray, but the air can't be described as damp anymore we cannot smell rain while it's in the process of wetting the earth, only afterwards. My research says that the eyes and ears are too busy to let the nose have a turn to smell the freshness of wet earth as well as freshness. Either way the sky stayed wet and dark all day long. The rain also make the ambiance quite as serious where you can only hear the familiar pitter-patter on the roof.

Similarly in the middle of night the rainclouds moves towards another town, and somewhere else to cheer that town up. What was left was the cold, more of a comfortable chillness that can be expected after a rainstorm. Just cold enough that you could breathe out fog and not enough to make you shiver. All this left with a clear sky behind the storm. The smell of rain, and a perfect view of the stars at the same time.