Many years ago, soon after we moved to the prairie, something went ‘thump’ in the night. Because it was a new house, I decided to wander around to find what caused the unknown sound. As I walked slowly through the semi-dark house, I noticed raindrops sticking to the windows. I decided to go to the large sliding glass doors in our dining room to watch the rain fall. Each raindrop sparkled like a prism in the light of a nearly full moon. As the drops fell, something materialized …