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	watching the rain and ignoring the rain
	would you watch or ignore the rain? ©2009 Ed Book Many who cross the sound often or daily absorb themselves in books, laptops, newspapers, or conversation to ignore the crossing. I've lived in western Washington state only since '73 so haven't been here long enough to get tired of the rain and don't ride the ferries often enough to get tired of the view - even if the view is fogged by rain... but I've always been like that, I love to enjoy the view when I go from here to there or from there to there or there to here... Back when I worked for wages at the place in Bremerton that did stuff to ships, I enjoyed my commute and the view, especially on the way home - for more than the fact that I was going away from that place... I often took the long way home... often my ten mile commute would stretch to fifty or a hundred or more miles and even in the rain... and even though I usually rode a motorcycle. Now, that I work at home, I often sit by a window watching the rain... but, today, no rain, cold and mostly clear but no rain... but, I watched for it... Peace ps this afternoon I saw the bright orb drop from a cloud and hide behind the Olympic Mountains...

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	From: melegyrn	Date: November 13th, 2009 02:39 am (UTC)		(Link)

I've lived here (in the Puget Sound area) all my life, which stretches back (ahem) to before 1973...I've never ridden the ferries enough to lose interest in watching what goes on outside the window. And I delight now in sitting with my laptop at the dining room table and watching the rain come down, and the storms come through. Or listening to the sound of the rain on the roof.

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	From: kytty	Date: November 13th, 2009 04:20 am (UTC)		(Link)

I'd listen until the sound put me to sleep. Rain relaxes me.

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	From: edbook	Date: November 13th, 2009 04:28 am (UTC)		(Link)

I like to go out in it to get it in my face... invigorating–unless it's sleet or hail and then it just hurts.

Peace

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	From: kytty	Date: November 13th, 2009 01:59 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I like to walk in the rain as long as I have something to protect my glasses. After all, I do like to see where I'm going :)

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	From: hillbillie	Date: November 13th, 2009 08:04 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	Bettter even than watching or listening:

I love to smell the rain.
Which would make me frustrated if I were to regularly ride a ferry that had closed windows like that..
then again, the smell of rain is only very noticeable in dryer climates, where it's rare (such as here in SoCal).
In Washington? Prabably all the rain-smell has been washed away already, diluted by its own abundance.

Still, I'd probably watch the raindrops' course against the windows, were I to ride that ferry.

At home, I'd more likely watch the fire. :)

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	From: edbook	Date: November 13th, 2009 08:19 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	Re: Bettter even than watching or listening:

the smell of rain is dust and we don't have much dust here because of the rain... we do have dust in the summer but because we don't have rain in the summer (unless we're skipping summer that particular year - which seems to happen occasionally)

Of course, there's the smell of thunder storms (which we don't have either) and that smell is, of course from ozone, but it's an acrid smell and irritates the mucus membranes of the sinus... (I used to have ozone problems from the air cleaning electorstatic precipitator I built when I had a darkroom... but cured that by adding a small heating coil that scavenged the extra oxygen atom)

sometimes the smell of rain is the lack of smell of particulates in the air...

Peace

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	From: edbook	Date: November 13th, 2009 08:20 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	Re: Bettter even than watching or listening:

watching the fire... I love the smell of wood smoke... I can pick out the type of wood burning and some of them take me to different memories in different places and times...

Peace

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	From: edbook	Date: November 13th, 2009 08:29 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	Re: Bettter even than watching or listening:

the ferry... they are huge boats and have various places to enjoy or not enjoy the passage... there are car decks to sit in the car or walk about in the open but roofed area, there are enclosed lounges and seating areas and outside protected and unprotected areas too and on some ferries there are outside areas with radiant heaters so you can be outside and warm in winter... When I ride, I mostly walk around the whole boat watching the scenery and the people and the patterns and textures of the boat... things that one doesn't seem to get time for if not captive for an hour during a passage... (but then, some get bored doing it every day and hate the commute and they seem to miss what is in front of them to enjoy)

Peace

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	From: yurtmeister	Date: November 13th, 2009 09:50 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	Do you...

...watch or ignore the rain?
Yes.

I'm one of those daily commuters you mention. Because I spend over two hours each and every day on these ships, I can't afford (time-wise) to play tourist EVERY day; I have to spend the time tending to the nuts & bolts of every-day life. But occasionally I'll take some time to enjoy the scenery or the breeze or just the motion of the ocean:

http://yurtmeister.livejournal.com/2009/10/09/
http://yurtmeister.livejournal.com/2009/09/17/
http://yurtmeister.livejournal.com/2009/09/29/

Edited at 2009-11-13 09:53 pm (UTC)

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