day after the storm

We're enjoying the calm after the storm. I still hear water in the gutters, so maybe it's raining lightly outside. but after the relentless shower of yesterday it sounds awfully quiet in and outside. The birds are chirping too. Last night we took Danny the dog for a walk and the smells of the bay trees perfumed our way. We saw the season's first newts on the path, too and with our feeble flashlight we realized we were risking stepping on one. We turned around and came home. It was still a good stretch of the legs and a chance to check on the status of things outside.