There we were trying to out ride the rain. Wind buffeting our faces stirring hair caught beneath ineffective bucket helmets. Stray drops landing on our noses and in our eyes. Green is too small a word for what we were passing. Verdant comes closer but it still doesn't capture the sheer vitality of what I was seeing. It was a green that you can feel, that envelopes and surrounds you. The kind of colour that opens your heart just by looking at it.