I woke up to thunder. The sky was dark and ominous. While writing my morning pages in my journal, there was a cloud burst and rain. My husband and I both ended up in the backyard. He left through the kitchen door, and I went out the bedroom slider, but we ended up together to experience rain.

It was a short-lived rainfall, but then there was that wonderful smell. There’s a word for it:

Petrichor: The distinctive scent which accompanies the first rain after a long warm dry spell.

I wrote about petrichor when I first discovered the word a few years ago. I wrote about it HERE

After a rain where we live there is a rich deep smell from creosote. Every region must have its own distinct petrichor, depending on plant life.

I took a look at what I wrote (link above) and what hit me was how many of the bloggers who I enjoyed reading and interacting with no longer are around. I clicked on their names and to read “page not found” or blogs with no new entries since 2021.

Do you find bloggers you followed have disappeared? Do you think it’s a coincidence it happened through the shutdown years?

Do you think that we should give our readers a warning if we stop blogging? Why or why not?

Moments after the rain.