6-Finally a short rain shower refreshes plants and soil: "The perfect complement to the joining of Sun and Earth, Rain Mother delivered her blessing."
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#RainMother #Goddess #Latvian #pagan #LittleMothers #LietusMate #solstice #seasons #rain #nature

I'll give a nod to #Perkuns #Latvian God of Thunder, but really I feel the pre-Indo-European #LietusMāte #RainMother doesn't need help from later interlopers 😉 [edit] Typical male gods feel the need to bluster and boast, the old rain goddesses just get on with it 😉 😆 Meanwhile the puddles are growing... #PuddleOfTheDay #pagan #water #rain #life #OldEurope #GoddessCulture

(see photos in main post) it was a warm week with daytime temperatures from 5 to nearly 15C, nights -5 to -10ish; cooling off starting yesterday- the real drop comes this week, with daytimes as low as -20C.
Pics are from Wednesday, when we'd had light #rain and a bit of #snow overnight- leading to #ice then #frost probably both #rime and #HoarFrost
A Black-capped Chickadee /Poecile atricapillus came to watch me
#SnowMother #SniegaMate #RainMother #LietusMate #FrostSpirits #Alberta #Canada