Thursday, September 24, 2009

Rain rain come and stay

In spite of needing new rubber boots, I am so loving this autumn rain business.

We've been having summer weather again where I live, so it's hot, and we even passed through a record number of dry days. Later, clouds kept lurching across the sky and then checking their watches and debating whether to fall here or push on to Chicago, and the few that threw a tantrum about it and shed a little water on us eventually gave in and followed the pack and left us with more sun.

But yesterday we got some real rain. It was fabulous. The temperature came down, the breeze was soft, I got to listen to birds calling over the sound of water dripping from the leaves outside my office window...

bliss.

(plus, I made it home pre-downpour with two fresh chocolate croissants. It does not get any better than that.)

2 comments:

Kathleen Taylor said...

I've never seen one- is a chocolate croissant a regular croissant with chocolate on it, or a croissant with chocolate in the dough? Either one sounds yummy.

Mary Keenan said...

Oh Kathi, we so need to get you up here for some knitting workshops so I can take them, and then take you to a bunch of patisseries for chocolate croissants. It's a regular croissant but when they're folding them together they lay a long narrow slab of dark chocolate along the dough. If you get them when they're first warm out of the oven, the chocolate is all goo and melt and delicious. In some places, they use the same chocolate, chopped, for their steamed-milk hot chocolate. And now, for some reason, I'm hungry...