A teacup rain chain

This pretty verdigris finish teacup?

I now have eight of them thanks to a new rain chain I bought over the weekend! I've had teacup bird feeders and teacup wind chimes, but I'd never even seen a teacup *rain chain* until I spotted this one at a cute shop called the Vintage Owl in Lavonia, Georgia, last weekend. Originating in Japan, rain chimes, I learned, were designed as an alternative to gutter downspouts, a decorative way to collect water or direct it away from the house.

But this huge sweetgum tree in my front yard had a metal swing arm mounted on it when we moved here sixteen years ago, so I removed the bird feeder I'd had hanging there and hung the rain chain. It's been raining a bit off and on all week, but I'm waiting on a real gullywasher to see how this piece performs. I have a feeling that rainstorms this summer are going to be much more fun to watch!