I recall a walk last year when I was passing through trees in a sudden downpour, the air cleared, and a freshness filled my nostrils. A combination of petrichor and scent from the leaves. It was a very vivid change. still clear in my mind, though I can’t remember where or when, so I can’t find a reference to it in my posts.
The forecast for this week is rain every day, as if we hadn’t had enough. 
Not having much free time, I am limited to local short walks. So I bring the week’s topic, Walk in the Rain, into action, slightly out of sync with my 52 Ways to Walk book. No one need ever know.
I have several choices: walking from my house on good surfaces or a short drive up the Fell. Despite waking most mornings to rain, by the time I set off to the shops or around the estates, the air has cleared, and hardly a drop of rain falls. The only evidence of the downpours is puddles everywhere and waterdroplets hanging from the branches. I feel overdressed in full waterproofs.
As the week progresses, I need to plan more carefully if I want to get wet. Driving up the fell should get me into the low cloud and hopefully rain. On two occasions, this bodes well, the windscreen being well splattered as I park up. 
But within seconds of putting a foot outside, there is complete calm. The day is still dull, but there is no rain in the air. Normally, I would say I am blessed, but I now feel cursed for my rain walk.
The walking is still pleasant in the cool, unpolluted air and with the wet foliage, but I’m not getting the full tactile experience of rain falling. Nor do I notice all those scents supposedly released from the foliage. I can’t be too disappointed, as I’m sure there will be many days in the year when I’m drenched.
Maybe tomorrow?
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Whilst on the subject of weather, I hope the early appearance of one of ‘my’ hedgehogs isn’t brought about by climate change, when his food may be in short supply, and when we may see plummeting temperatures this weekend. 
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And on the subject of Climate Change, today, President Trump has revoked laws established to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and limit greenhouse gas emissions. A dangerous and ill-founded decision made partly to appease his pals in the oil industry. This is how the BBC reports it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0zdd7yl4vo
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Slowly Sinking, Miami. Isaac Cordal.
I’m heartily sick of all the rain, it just never seems to stop. A lovely photo of your hedgehog, he/she looks very cute 😊
I don’t go out in the rain very often, and then when you want some, it doesn’t play ball.
Hope my hedgehog was tucked up before today’s snow.
It is really depressing that some people still think that climate change is not an issue.
Most of the civilised world is signed up for it. China is now ahead of the States.
Bravo! I am with you all the way. I posted some time ago about walking in the rain if you want to look, you commented at the time.
https://conradwalks.blogspot.com/2013/01/singing-in-rain-im-happy-again.html
As for Ttump there seems to be no mechanism to stop him breaking the law. There has been at least one court case ruling against this subject, I can’t remember the exact details, but there never seems to be any consequences. I find it all physically sickening, and by that I mean a definite identifiable churning of the stomach.
That was a good walk up Top O’Selside. Thirteen years ago, you did well to retrieve your post from then. I can’t find my ‘rain’ one from last year.