Use Your Imagination

Around 6:00 PM it started raining. We haven't had any rain for more than a week so we needed some rain. After all this is the rainy season. It settles the dust and cools things off and of course the plants always appreciate a good drenching of rain instead of city water.

I hadn't really planned to cook dinner, either we would eat the left over chicken-vegetable-pasta salad I made for Thursday or we'd go out to one of the neighborhood restaurants. By the way, the salad was really good and chuck full of veggies.....corn, english peas, spinach, zucchini, carrots, celery, red pepper, red onion and maybe some other veggies that I can't remember now. I used tri-colored pasta. It was quite colorful and delicious.

Back to the story. About 7:45 there was a let up in the rain. We needed to make a decision about eating....in or go out. We decided to take advantage of the rain break and headed up the street to the pizza place on the corner of 20 de Enero and Orizaba. We were the only people in the restaurant and we sat where I could see out the door. It was the time of night when the sky is this wonderful deep blue...not yet night.

Then it hit me. I had not brought the camera with me. Too wet outside. But there was a picture that was calling out to me. The cobblestones in the street were yellow from the light reflected from the street light and the puddles of water surrounding each of them was the deep blue reflected from the sky. Maybe this doesn't seem like much of a picture to some of you but to me it was a missed opportunity to capture a light, a moment that was so beautiful, a moment that would be gone very quickly and I might never have the priviledge of seeing again. I can use my imagination and see it again but, damn, I'd really like to have that image in a digital file.