not what I expected

This afternoon, while I was watching the bonus features on the This Is It dvd (by the way, watch that movie!  AND the bonus features!  SO. GOOD.), I was watching out of the corner of my eye as the sky slowly turned dark and suddenly, it started to POUR.  I grabbed my nikon coolpix thinking I might make an interesting photo of the now flooded street.  But all those pictures were BO-RING...

These are the photos I liked the best.  Once the rain started to come to a stop, and I opened my window again, the water droplets all over the screen caught my eye...

And I took this one out on the front porch during the downpour... it might be my favorite: