We recently spent a few days away in the Lake District, in North West England, around 100 miles away from our home. This is a land of lakes, mountains and rivers - very beautiful, but also very wet for a good deal of the time; they need the rain to keep those lakes full.
We spent one memorable day at this Neolithic monument, Castlerigg Stone Circle, near Keswick. There are 40 stones arranged in a rough circle, with ten more in a small rectangle within. The image above is composed of two photographs linked to form a panorama, and the large rock faces due south.
We had almost continuous rain that day, and I had to work hard to get my photographs. I had the camera set up on my tripod, and I squatted on a low stool, holding an umbrella over the camera, struggling to set the controls and take the photos - while the rain dribbled down my neck. We have to suffer for our art sometimes.

In the haiku, I wanted to link the idea of the constant presence of these rocks - at least, for around 3500 years anyway - with the certainty of rain in summer in this hill country.