There were close to three inches of rain the day I drove from Bandon (Oregon) to Crescent City (California) last month. It rained really hard, it rained even harder, and then it rained some more. It rained all day.
The next day there were raindrops everywhere, and I couldn’t stop taking photos of them. They were so magical! So novel! My favorite was this blade of grass near the beach.
When I looked more closely, I could see that the leaf behind the grass was reflected in the droplets. I think it may have been a thimbleberry leaf.
I told the friend I was staying with that I’d seen something truly amazing that day. I said the raindrops on the undergrowth in the redwoods had lasted all day long — they never went away! It quickly became clear that was a remarkable phenomenon only to this desert dweller.
An associated note: My neighbor here in Albuquerque has been tracking our rainfall for nine years. April to June of 2021 was the wettest 2nd quarter he’s recorded — we received 2.55 inches of rain. In other words, there was more rain in one day along the northern California coast than in the Sandia foothills during a three-month period earlier this year.