Umbrellas
  
 Upturned blossoms
 open on rainy days,
 the weather necessary
 for thirsty upright flowers.
  
 Windborne colonies,
they travel along sidewalks,
 especially now, when April 
 showers are bringing trills
  
 of robins. Clouds will part; 
 the dome of egg-blue 
 will return. Until then,
 bumper crops of bright
  
 bumpershoots fill 
 our lowered skies,
 protect our heads,
 delight our eyes.
  
 Leslie Schultz 

Yep. Today, it is raining again, here in Northfield, Minnesota, but today I am looking on the bright side! Many thanks to model Mattie Lufkin–Mattie, you bring sunshine wherever you go!

LESLIE