It was only overcast for about twenty minutes, but those were the twenty minutes I spent wandering around Home Depot trying to decide which flowers might look nice in front of the house. Sandwiched at eye level between gray skies and concrete floors, they all looked like they were dying. I was hungry and very tired and disinclined to spend my afternoon saving them. If it was going to rain this afternoon anyway, this was all a waste of time.
But I was already there, and the flowers I wanted were only 95 cents each, and they wouldn't be any worse off for a few days on our deck than they would at the store.
So: annuals or perennials? Hah, this is a rented house.
We had agreed on something blue, but I got red ones.
And then the sun came out while I walked to my car. The clouds and I were going the same way, so I raced them home and won.
Now I've got a dozen-and-a-half red flowers ("salvias") in planters by the front stoop. They look brilliant in the sun.
When they were all in, I sat down on the steps, looked up at the blue sky, and wondered when it might rain.