When Mother Nature unleashes her summer storms I love the smell after the rain is gone and the earth settles down and absorbs the moisture.
The locusts and crickets get busy making music and the smell of the rain and wet dirt is one of the very best smells going, as far as I am concerned. I could sit in the swing in our front yard for hours and just get lost in the sounds and smells of nature after a summer rain, except for one thing: the rain brings out the mosquitoes in droves, so you can not sit outside for very long and enjoy the smells and sounds without getting eaten up by the bugs.
You have to take the bad with the good that is one sure thing.