Such a relief.

It now rains most evenings in San Miguel de Allende, somewhere between 5 and 7 p.m. I could almost set my watch by it, if I had a watch.

We got caught in a downpour last night in Colonia San Antonio as we were leaving a nearby Italian restaurant, Denver’s Los Olivos, with some friends. Juan Miguel (Denver) always delights — a very old-school chef with traditional recipes and a dining-in-the-kitchen feel.

Unless you reserve the swimming pool out back. It is drained and astro-turfed with a table that seats eight. Quirky and cozy — except during the rainy season. You don’t want to be taking dinner in a swimming pool during a thunderstorm.

I mean, that is just common sense.

Tacos Santos is between Denver’s and our home, on a short side street we often cut through. We’ve only recently moved back into our old neighborhood, and I forgot how popular this stand is. It is only open at night, but you can hear people inside preparing food all afternoon.

My wife, Rose Alcantara, was the one who spotted the potential of this scene for a photo. My eyes were down to the ground, trying not to step in a puddle, and my mind was on the fettuccine scampi that I had just devoured.

Sometimes you get lucky — an observant partner like Rose, and also a car and motorcycle with headlamps on to light up the scene. Their lighting put a shimmer on all that wetness!

Tomorrow is Día de los Locos, Day of the Crazies. There is a parade at 10 a.m. on the broad Ancha de San Antonio in which as many as 10,000 people parade through San Miguel in costumes of all sorts, imaginable and unimaginable. The parade is four hours long.

It is the culmination of two full weeks of nightly parades/processions and fireworks celebrating St. Anthony de Padua, the namesake of our local church and neighborhood. Two weeks! Every night, a holy procession followed by bands of dancing locos families starts off from a different church and ends up at San Antonio.

Isn’t it fascinating? The people with seemingly the least in this world, find the most reasons to celebrate.