It was summer and rain was not expected,

but when I stepped outside to walk to the store

I saw the drops falling

so I stepped back inside

and grabbed my blue umbrella waiting in a little yellow bucket by the piano. 

Off I started on my journey

but stopped a bit to chat with a neighbor about whether I should walk,

might there be a downpour?

I checked my phone app,

no rain predicted,

so I continued on,

happy to have my bright blue umbrella to keep me dry and cheer me up.

As I was walking briskly by the library (umbrella open, yes quite a rain falling),

I passed a mother exiting her car,

little girl carried in her arms.

I then hear from behind me a little girl voice saying,

"I want a blue umbrella."

I turned and laughed with the mother in this unexpected rain,

I walked with a smile with my blue umbrella.