Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

 Early in the afternoon the air darkens, the sky to the north-west is dark blue gray; almost without warning a light shower comes.(HT)The sound of raindrops on trees and plants is cooling espec¬ially when accompanied with the sound of shattering leaves windblown.Little puffs of dust arise on the falling of the first drops.The air is full of the odor of dampened dust which is flat alto¬gether unpleasant, and is made more precious perhaps by the thought that hereafter