After the Rains

Ok, so I've been living in Los Angeles for about six months now, and I think I figured out why A. so many other people live here and B. they shoot movies here:

Its freaking gorgeous.

Seriously.  I mean I knew it was nice.  Temperate.  There's a beach.   But its been raining for a week, and this weekend, when the sun came out, it became paradise.  The smog was cleared, the hills and ground were this verdant green that rivals emeralds, and you could see clear to the ocean.

Oh, just look:

This was t...