Leaf Boat, originally uploaded by Wordyeti.

The heavy rainstorms of this past weekend were much-needed, and therefore much-welcomed in Los Angeles.

The anticipated apocalyptic mudslides in the fire-ravaged areas never materialized, but that hasn’t stopped the local TV news crews from speculating on how horrible the damage would have been. If only Mother Nature had cooperated. Which it still might. So stay tuned.

Any little touch of fall-like weather always makes me somewhat homesick for the Upper Midwest in October. Even though it’s December in Los Angeles, and that means that the weather there is sub-Siberian.