12/4: singing in the rain

Campus was quiet today:  classes are over, and exams begin tomorrow, so professors were quietly working in their offices while students were squirreled away studying.  When I walked across campus at lunchtime, no one else was out and about.  It was raining (another reason that people were staying tucked inside), but amidst it all--rain, thunder, and general greyness--I heard so many birds singing.