I needed this picture today, a cloudy, dreary, and rainy one. I'm not, to be sure, complaining about the more than inch-and-a-quarter amount of precipitation we received in the gauge, and I'm also not whining about being confined to quarters indoors. We may be bearing witness to the end of a very severe drought, and I'd be happy to see the dryness go. But I'd also love to see the sun return and lend a sparkle to a landscape that, while many of the leaves have already dropped as a result of drought, is still more than occasionally appropriately colored for fall.