it is a grey and rainy thursday march the 26th but the rain does not impede my daily walk and exploration of the neighbourhood...many grumpy faces passed me today and i constantly wonder why most people need the sun and heat to create smiles...perhaps they are trained early in life to believe that a good day is one with sun and a bad day is a rainy one...that was certainly not my upbringing nor the way i brought up my children...as my scottish parents would say..'if you never went out in the rain in Scotland...you would never go out'...the rain brings peace and softness to the world and we could do with fewer negative weather forecasters and naysayers who only encourage the hedonistic worship of the sun...here's to the cloudy days and the raindrops...i love how my hair magically turns into ringlets....