Jaci Dawn

There’s a Special Effect in most photoshop programs that allows you to make your photo appear as if you were looking through water at it.

I did not use that effect.

I just took a photo of my windshield during a recent down pour.

Just for the record: I was not driving. I was enjoying my lunch, watching the sheet of water come down.

I always go out to my car to have lunch. It gets me out of the office, away from the cubicle, and gives me some much-needed alone time (or down time) in the middle of the day. Sometimes I take a nap, sometimes I read several chapters in a book, sometimes I read a devotional. I almost always work on a crossword puzzle. Sometimes I write letters.

And sometimes I just watch the rain.

And the traffic.

There’s a two-way stop just to the right of the images in the photo. Cross traffic does not stop. Cross traffic is traveling at 35 miles per hour (or better). It’s sometimes quite amusing to watch the traffic. Horns blast as someone approaches and thinks it is a four-way. Someone pulls out in front of someone and horns blast. Someone turns left in front of on-coming traffic.

I’ve seen a couple accidents there, too. Accidents are not amusing.

Sometimes the geese decide to parade back and forth across the street right in front of my car. There’s a pond there by those watery looking incense cedar trees. Geese love to go on parade. They take their time and do a fancy little goose-step. Halfway across the street, they decide they really wanted to stay where they were.

Someone always gets impatient and honks their horn at the geese in the road. Geese do not understand what that means. They did not go to pedestrian school where the teacher told them, “If a car honks at you, get out of the way.” Geese think a car horn is just another weird human sound. They continue on their parade at their own pace.

There were no geese on parade the day I took the photo. They were curled up somewhere with their heads tucked under their wings. Smart geese.

That was a lot of water coming down.