Reason #346 as to why I love living near the water, in a place surrounded on three sides by water....

Rain from a passing thundershower, quiet sunday afternoon, the smell of rain and a faint one of the sea tide... making those falling, splatter sounds of steady rainfall against the roof, the gutter...

Yeah, rain. Windows open, light, chilled breeze flowing in...

And then, a mile away, the deep powerful foghorn of a sea-going giant tanker blasts, echoes and resonates through the background of steady, splattering rain.

Cool.
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And then ...

The musical bells of Mt Carmel church softly peal through the rain and distant thunder to signal the end of sunday evening mass.

Sublime, this.