Red Rain

The sun is shining now but  a few hours ago it was raining, I was enjoying the pitter-patter of the rain while watching  the storm drain gulp all the rain water from the street, the flowing water were so obedient, they quietly flowed in a steady stream quenching the never ending thirst of the drain.
Just as I was letting my imaginations run wild, I found myself imagining an imagination  within an imagination that the flowing  water was red.  Not blood but a rain that was red. Didn't  quite enjoy the imagery.

Turns out that it did rain RED on July 25 , 2001,  in the  districts of Kottayam and  Iddukki in the South Indian state of Kerala.

What caused the red rain?  Official government reports said  that  the presence of large amount of  spores  from  lichen-forming alga  in the stratosphere caused the red rain. 
Well, the panspermia theorists believe otherwise.

Either way, what's not to be in awe of the RED RAIN?
Rain water sample (left) and after the particles settled (right). Dried sediment (center).

Images from wikipedia.org