Weather and Wonder

[browngirl]

This entry is going to be a lot shorter than it should be, because I keep getting interrupted, but that's probably a good thing.

So this half-hour rainstorm nearly every afternoon is really making me nostalgic for Jamaica and reminding Tigerlily of Savannah. Which is cute, but disconcerting, because this is New England. OTOH, I have seen three rainbows so far this summer! It hasn't gotten old yet, the sky with thick cloud at one side and blue clarity at the other and opposite brilliant sun a bright rainbow.

Last Friday when I got home I looked up at the sun, turned around, and saw this:



Except that it was so much bigger in person, a bright arch of seven colors (I usually see at most six). I ran upstairs hollering for Tigerlily, because to live with a photographer and not let them know of such a sight would be a crime against a wondrous universe, and she ran downstairs and took the picture above.

Yesterday when my train emerged from the tunnel to a simultaneous deluge of sunshine and rain I started looking around franticallly for the rainbow. Finally I saw it, low and dim and only displaying three colors (I know they're all there, I'm talking about its appearance). I pointed it out to the woman across from me, but the rest of the train car ignored the crazy woman ranting about rainbows. *snerk*

Three rainbows in a summer. Maybe I'll see a fourth before it's done.

Comments

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

THANK you! Nice picture.


(I've seen five. I pointed one out inarticulately to my mother while she was driving past me. It was kind of entertaining.)

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

OK, I confess that once I spotted a rainbow outside my classroom just before class or during a break. I dragged them all outside to look. Just because.

And if anyone says that water is a colorless substance--that is the color of water.

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. Gorgeous. Thanks for sharing it with all of us who couldn't be there.

::hug::

[kathrynt.livejournal.com]

One awesome thing about Seattle is that we get rainbows all the time. I mean, ALL. The. time. Sometimes every day for a week, or two in the sky at once. The day of Erik's grandfather's funeral, there was a triple that ended in the lake.

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

Here's a photo I took last year of four rainbows at once. I will probably never see the like again, and consider myself astoundingly lucky and privileged to have seen it at all.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Wow. Good you had a camera!

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Lovely! Thanks for sharing.