Coincidentally:
the holiday weekend here was all sunshiny, but last night after all the fireworks, the rainstorms moved in. The rain has now stopped but the clouds are still dominant, and the forecast says we will have sun even if it doesn't at first appear so. My corner of Massachusetts is particularly green, located as it is on the upper Charles River. There was a painter named George Inness who specialized in landscapes, who for a few years raised his young family in this region; although he moved further south, the landscape here stayed in his memory and turned up in his paintings even after he had left. I ought to see if there are online files of Inness' work: it makes Thomas Kinkade look cheap, the best of his work takes your breath away.