Image: Arthur Browne.
Standing in the town square and I am exhausted. It’s been a long day. Up early with my partner urging to get up as there was so much to see and tomorrow is our last day.
But the drudgery of so much walking and climbing stairs to see things has left my feet sore, my leg muscles aching, my whole level of enthusiasm for travel at a bit of a low. But I know its fatigue that has led me to this point. The afternoon storm cooled the air, the rain pounded down just as we sought shelter, our fellow summer travellers all crowding into the small pub finding refuge with a glass of the pub’s finest while watching the heavens open and dump all it could onto the town square.
I look up as the clouds break up, the rumbling is moving away and the pleasant sight of the rainbow fills us all with a sense of wonderment at the power and beauty of nature.
summers day heat
the beauty of the rainbow
sets my heart at rest.
Written for: https://haibunthinking.wordpress.com/2015/01/06/haibun-thinking-january-6th-2015/
Morpethroad 
This is lovely, Michael, a great haibun, we can feel the fatigue but well worth the wait for that amazing end of day…naturally my weakness for rainbows (notwithstanding my sunsets) 🙂
Thank you Oliana having recently travelled I well understand the fatigue factor.
Yes I’m sure you do. Too bad once every three days you had a half day touring and hotels were half price.
No matter how tired, the beauty of nature will always wake us up. Nicely done Michael.
Those moments of exhausting then respite can be beautiful x
I have traveled and gotten fatigued–and nothing was so sweet as finding that pub. Imagining “the heavens open and dump all it could onto the town square” would have been blissful!
A great way to spend an afternoon that has turned very wet. Just sitting there for that time can rejuvenate the bones.
It certainly can Al. Thanks for dropping by.
You’re welcome 🙂
A refreshing ending 😀
Thank you it was I agree.