My Garden In Rain

Yesterday was a very rainy day. My back garden was miserable. The sunflowers tried to keep dry by covering their faces with their petals. The poor fir tree was so cold that his needles were shaking. I had to fill all the hot water bottles in the house and wrap them around his trunk.

Our weeping willow made matters worse by crying so hard that little rivers flowed down his leaves on to the other plants. They were all annoyed. The willow tree said he was sorry and explained that he was always unhappy when it rained.

"That's silly," said his neighbor the apple tree. "Rain is good for willow trees!"

"Be brave," said the giant cherry tree. "None of us are comfortable, but the rain won't last forever." Then the cherry tree shook her branches, sending water drops flying through the air and into the fishpond. The fish swam angrily to the water surface. They had been studying fish dancing.

"Do you know how hard it is to concentrate on our lesson with the rain pounding on our roof?" asked the biggest fish. "You just made it twice as noisy in here. I have such a headache!"

The cherry tree apologized for being so thoughtless. She promised to shake her branches in a different direction next time.