Down with umbrellas

We've had a ton of rain lately, thank God. Atlanta's drought is officially over.

I was pushing my shopping cart out of the grocery store the other day in the middle of a downpour. I don't own an umbrella. There was no sense in trying to hide from the rain, so I kept my head up--and a huge flock of starlings swooped down from the sky and into a bare-limbed tree and off again, all in perfect synch with each other.

Okay, they were only starlings, but they were beautiful. If I'd had my head buried under an umbrella, I would have missed the show.