Desperate Measures

I didn't manage to find a photograph today, so at 11 PM, with it raining outside, I went out on the front porch with my camera on a tripod, and tried a shot.  Not good enough.  So then I grabbed an umbrella, and walked down the driveway, trying something with the Japanese maple tree leaves at night.  Didn't work.  Then I focused on the wet trees down the hill, on the other side of the street.  Got something I liked.  I did not like the garish colors from the mercury vapor streetlight, so I converted it to black and white, and I like the feeling of the photograph much better.