Comments on: Rain http://www.sandiegozoo.org/wordpress/default/rain/ Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:58:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Judy J http://www.sandiegozoo.org/wordpress/default/rain/#comment-39471 Fri, 04 May 2007 17:04:08 +0000 http://www.sandiegozoo.org/wordpress/default/rain/#comment-39471 Gary, You are a wonderful poet! It is true--everything is fresher, cleaner--the scents, the crispness of the newly washed air, the intensified green of the plants, the renewed spring in the steps of the animals, the sprint for the nearest restaurant or gift shop to get one of those panchos, the feeling that you and the other 'brave' ones have the Zoo all to yourselves. In this Southern California area the rain is a gift, and what better way to enjoy it than to be at the Zoo or the WAP. Happy Spring! Blessed Be, Judy J Gary, You are a wonderful poet! It is true–everything is fresher, cleaner–the scents, the crispness of the newly washed air, the intensified green of the plants, the renewed spring in the steps of the animals, the sprint for the nearest restaurant or gift shop to get one of those panchos, the feeling that you and the other ‘brave’ ones have the Zoo all to yourselves. In this Southern California area the rain is a gift, and what better way to enjoy it than to be at the Zoo or the WAP. Happy Spring! Blessed Be, Judy J

]]> by: Margaret http://www.sandiegozoo.org/wordpress/default/rain/#comment-39212 Wed, 02 May 2007 17:09:11 +0000 http://www.sandiegozoo.org/wordpress/default/rain/#comment-39212 Gary, it is so true that rain at a public event brings "a kind of camaraderie" that would not exist if the sudden change in our environment did not occur. People must change course quickly, often huddling under small promontories for shelter. Thankfully people usually become more "civil" and try harder to help each other out. Animals often get energized by the sudden dip in temperature and source of liquid life. Some go about unfazed, and others suddenly brighten up and become more active. A few head for shelter, as they wrote about young panda Mei Lan when she encountered her first Spring showers last week, "You would have thought her name was Chicken Little yelling “the sky is falling!” based on how fast she ran to the doors wanting to be given access to her nice dry indoor dayroom." I can just picture your zoo guests, young and old, large and small, dashing for the nearest cover in case they might just melt from the rain. When the showers end everyone comes out re-energized with a new and different focus on where they were headed. I love your description, "I feel somehow changed. Fresher, cleaner, with a new jump start." What a great way to start a "new" day. Gary, it is so true that rain at a public event brings “a kind of camaraderie” that would not exist if the sudden change in our environment did not occur. People must change course quickly, often huddling under small promontories for shelter. Thankfully people usually become more “civil” and try harder to help each other out.

Animals often get energized by the sudden dip in temperature and source of liquid life. Some go about unfazed, and others suddenly brighten up and become more active. A few head for shelter, as they wrote about young panda Mei Lan when she encountered her first Spring showers last week, “You would have thought her name was Chicken Little yelling “the sky is falling!” based on how fast she ran to the doors wanting to be given access to her nice dry indoor dayroom.”

I can just picture your zoo guests, young and old, large and small, dashing for the nearest cover in case they might just melt from the rain. When the showers end everyone comes out re-energized with a new and different focus on where they were headed. I love your description, “I feel somehow changed. Fresher, cleaner, with a new jump start.” What a great way to start a “new” day.

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