This file includes weather, Rain and Rainbows, Wind, and Miscellaneous. See also Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, Time and Sun, Moon, Stars.

• All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.
• Bad weather always looks worse through a window.
• Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get.
• A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition. (William Arthur Ward)
• Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. (Kin Hubbard)
• For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather, every sky has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously. (George Gissing)
• It is no use to grumble and complain;
  It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice;
  When God sorts out the weather and sends rain -
  Why, rain's my choice.
  (James Whitcomb Riley)
• Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. (Henry David Thoreau)
• To everything there is a season.
• Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing,
  wind braces up, snow is exhilarating;
  there is no such thing as bad weather,
  only different kinds of good weather.
  (John Ruskin)
• There is no season such delight can bring
  As summer, autumn, winter and the spring. (William Browne)
• To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. (George Santayana)
• Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. (Anthony J. D'Angelo)

Weather

Whether the weather be fine,
Or whether the weather be not,
Whether the wether be cold,
Or whether the weather be hot,
We'll weather the weather
Whatever the weather,
Whether we like it or not!

Wonderful Weather

I like to watch the way the wind
can spin a weather vane.

I like to wear my big blue boots
to splash with in the rain.

I like to ride my bright red sled
on cold snowy days.

I like to feel the sun's warm rays
when I wade in the ocean waves.

Wind, rain, snow, and sun
Every kind of weather
is wonderful and fun!

Walking

(Dilys Bennett Laing)

  I walked on a snow-bank that squeaked like leather,
  Or two wooden spoons that you rub together.
  
         I walked on green moss and brown earth, sprouting
         With little grass blades on their first spring outing.

                I walked on blossoms and cool, green cresses,
                And grass that rustled like silken dresses.
 
                        I walked on bracken, and dry leaves after,
                        That flamed with color and crackled with laughter.
  
                               I walked on the earth as the seasons came,
                               And under my feet it was never the same!
   

A Calendar

(Sara Coleridge)

Poems for the Months

Even if you don't intend to make a Perpetual Sentiments Album you might want to look at the file. Many of the verses would go well on a page of miscellaneous photos from a particular month. Or you could do a double page spread of photos to summarize a year at the beginning or end of an album.

Rain and Rainbows

Rain Page Toppers

(Many of these page toppers were compiled by Jean Gifford. They are for free distribution only.)

Rain Quotes

• Anyone who thinks only sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.
• The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
• Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching. (Fran Lebowitz)
• I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness. (Adeline Knapp)
• In the spring rain, the pond and the river become one.
• Into every life some rain must fall. Usually when your car windows are down.
• It raineth on the Just and the Unjust Alike,
  But the Unjust stealeth the Just's umbrella
• Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. (Langston Hughes)
• Listen to the rhythm of the falling rain
• Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger. (Saint Basil)
• Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. (John Updike)
• Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains. (Henry Ward Beecher)
• Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. (Roger Miller)
• There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down. (Don DeLillo)
• Thy fate is the common fate of all;
  Into each life some rain must fall. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
• Washing your car to make it rain doesn't work.
• We do not sing "Rain, Rain Go Away".
  
• We put on our slickers and go out and play!
• The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. (e. e. cummings)

Rainbow Page Toppers

• After the Rain
• All the Colors of the Rainbow
• My End of the Rainbow
• Over the Rainbow
• The Rainbow Connection
• Rainbows apologize for angry skies. (Sylvia Voirol)
• Rainbow's End
• Somewhere over the rainbow
• There could be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.
• There is a way out of every dark mist over a rainbow trail.
• The Whole Spectrum

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter. (Mark Twain)

Page Idea
Put a rainbow sticker in upper corner of the page, "tilted". Use design line stripes to continue the "rainbow" along the top and side of the page. The colors don't match exactly, but that's OK, because you cover the "seams" with cloud stickers.

A Rainbow

(William Woodsworth)

My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!

The Rain

Pitter-patter raindrops,
Falling from the sky.
Here is my umbrella
To keep me safe and dry.
When the rain is over
And the sun begins to glow,
Little flowers start to bud
And grow and grow and grow.

Clouds

(Christina Rossetti)

White sheep, white sheep
On a blue hill,
When the wind stops
You all stand still,
You walk away slow.
White sheep, white sheep
Where do you go?

Poem to Mud

(Zilpha Keatley Snyder)

Poem to mud-
Poem to ooze-
Patted in pies, or coating the shoes.
Poem to slooze-
Poem to crud-
Fed by a leak, or spread by a flood.
Wherever, whenever, whyever it goes,
Stirred by your finger or strained by your toes,
There's nothing sloppier, slipperier, floppier,
There's nothing slickier, stickier, thickier,
There's nothing quickier to make grown-ups sickier,
Trulier coolier,
Than wonderful mud.

April Fool

(Eleanor Hammond)

Wind

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. (Kahlil Gibran)

Page Toppers

Who Has Seen the Wind

(Christina Rossetti)

Pin Wheels

This works easier if you use 2 pieces of patterned paper because it folds easier. The page I saw used the green dot and pink gingham. The red gingham and deep blue star would also look good. Cut 2 squares out of different colored paper (If you want 3 pinwheels down the side of a page make the squares a little over 2 inches). Adhere the squares back to back with the tape runner. Be sure to use plenty of tape in the center and all the corners.
Next make 4 cuts - one from each corner toward the center. You need to go a little over half way to the center.
Next make the folds - which ever paper is on the top is the one that will end up showing the most. First put the square on the table with one corner facing you. Fold the right side of that corner up to the center. Give the square a quarter turn to the left and fold up that right corner to the center. Continue all around. You can just tape down the folded pieces or you can but a small star or dot sticker in the center to help hold them and cover up the points. Add cut paper sticks or draw them with pens.
Use the title "Spring fun".

Kite Page

I saw a page with a kite shape - the regular kind with the two smaller triangles at the top and two larger ones at the bottom. They cut four photos into the triangle shapes and matted them with photo paper, leaving a narrow edge.
The tail was drawn with a black pen and they used small pieces of paper for those funny things you see tied on a kite string (you can see I am know nothing about kites!) Anyway they had journaled on them - names and date if I recall.
It was a really sharp looking page but it would be lucky if you had photos that happened to lend themselves to those shapes. Of course you could journal on one of the triangles or make a smaller kite.

The Hurricane

(Luis Pales Matos)

When the hurricane unfolds
Its fierce accordion of winds,
On the tip of its toes,
Agile dancer, it sweeps whirling
Over the carpeted surface of the sea
With the scattered branches of the palm.

Wind Blows

(E. M. Hepburn)

No animal sleeps well on windy night.

Cope with his own hard world he barely can,
And wind engages him beyond the bounds
Of what is known, and his; of what is now.

Wind blows
From very strange and far and long ago.
Wind blows
Across the seas, the upthrust hills,
The verdured valleys and the drifting sands.

Wind blows
From past and into future; and its sound
Is not the sound of place encircled
Or of time at stay.

Its vast impermanence can be endured by day
But haunts, however drowsily, the dark.

No animal sleeps well on windy nights.

from The Wayward Wind

(Patsy Cline)

Oh, the wayward wind is a restless wind,
A restless wind that yearns to wander,
And he was born the next of kin,
The next of kin to the wayward wind.