From 8-year old Hilda’s diary:

It rained so hard last night. I heard the rain drumming on our roof, very hard, just before I fell off to sleep and I wondered if it would still be raining when I woke up, but the sun was out today. When I went outside the sidewalk was full of rainbows and worms.

In the typed copy I have of Hilda’s diary, it is entitled “Rainbows and Worms.” When I read this entry earlier in the year, it took me back to my childhood in San Francisco. I vividly recall walking to school after a rain and seeing earthworms all over the sidewalk, and rainbows in the puddles. Perhaps because there is so much more pavement everywhere in the city, it had been many years since I noticed an earthworm on the ground. The day after I first read this entry, it rained and outside our front door, lo and behold, there was a (not very happy) earthworm!!