In Ireland we grow grass like nowhere else in the world, because our climate is ideal for it – all that lovely soft rain.
Jimmy Breslin, who attached himself to O'Neill throughout the Watergate hearings after O'Neill had become known as "the architect of impeachment," wrote poetically in his well-received book, "How the Good Guys Finally Won," "For if you see Tom O'Neill as he is, not as conformity forces us to see, then there is coming into the room a lovely spring rain of a man".
(Of his home country, he said, "Lovely beaches, wonderful rain forest, and great Colonial architecture, but no Greek or Roman").
The petite Lynne is the Little Big Sister of Allison Moorer, whose lovely "Like the Rain" appeared on her most recent album, Crows, which was released in February.
And there is a lovely name for the rain: "Nvua".
Shots blurred by rain are lovely when something distinctive and colorful can be discerned through the rain.
The loveliest track here, Summer Rain, is seemingly a trademark dewy, nostalgic love song, but reveals a subtle environmental message.
He sang a lovely solo version of "Raining on Sunday," strumming and tapping his guitar.
'It was lovely,' says Monica, but the rain had got to it by the time they bought the place, and it was beyond saving.
