early morning fog
dapples the tulips with drops
of glistening dew
After four days of rain, this morning the rain makers seem to have run out of steam, having only enough energy to make tiny droplets that hang in the air as pale gray fog and accumulate on plants in the form of glistening dewdrops.
We had planned on going to the annual Tulip Festival in Pella, a town in central Iowa founded by Dutch. The festival was scheduled to begin on Thursday, but a cold, steady rain began on Wednesday. By Thursday morning the temperature had dropped to just above freezing and further north they had 11 inches of snow. The rain continued right through Friday and Saturday, so we didn't make it to the festival this year.
After the fog lifted this morning, I found a little patch of tulips in town, bedazzled with dewdrops, holding their own little festival. Then in the late afternoon, a sudden cloud burst, complete with pea-sized hail. Poor, bedraggled tulips!
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