Weather, or not

We're currently having what's known here in L.A. as "weather". It actually rained today, rained a little bit yesterday as well. A funny thing happens when it rains. The air becomes really clear, and you notice things you didn't notice before, like mountains. Even though the suggestion of mountains is always present, they hide behind a sometimes-gray, sometimes-brown layer of smog. Enter rain, and we are all suddenly surrounded by cascading tiers of jagged rocks peppered with trees and foliage.

The temperatures were in the high 90's all of last week; today they were in the high 60's. Of course, that's still preferable to what's in store for the east coast, but it's quite a change nonetheless.