Xploration challenge #384 June 5 2025

The past fortnight has been humid, yet there was no rainfall. Even when precipitation occurred, it was very light and brief. Hardly enough rain fell to wet the earth. One such scant rainy day, I assumed I didn’t need to water the plants. I was lazy to look at the moisture of the soil. The next day, when I went to water my plants, I found one had already wilted and died From that day onwards, whenever the rainfall was very light, I would still water my plants by late afternoon.

Xploration challenge #384 says:

This week’s prompt is to use 1) a question and 2) an exclamation in your piece. That is, the .

2 comments

  1. Good warning for others! Rainfall does not give equal attention to all?

  2. Hi Reena. The environment has a wall which blocks some rain from making contact with the earth. Rain does not always fall vertically down.

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