A RAINBOW!

After dinner tonight I left the house at about 6:30  It had been raining most of the day.  As I drove by the harbor, I saw the sun break through some clouds as it was close to setting.  "Looks pretty amazing" I thought because there were rain showers around a a beautiful atmospheric effect.  Then I turned the corner down by the old power plant and started to climb the mile long hill.  I didn't get far before I saw the most spectacular rainbow I have ever seen in my entire life!  It was a perfect bow - 180 degrees of rainbow.  I quickly pulled over and grabbed my camera but realized the rainbow spanned a huge area of the sky, so used my new iPhone 14 with it's wide angle setting to get this photograph.  I didn't like all the wires so got back in the car and drove a few blocks more, and took some more photos, with both my iPhone and my Sony camera.  And then I did a really smart thing.  I just sat in my car with the wipers on - it was raining - and decided to just take this all in, so I sat there quietly and carefully observed the beauty of this spectacular rainbow!  No photos, just looking.  After a couple of minutes, I drove on, but stopped at two more places as I drove east where I took photographs.  But I hold that image in my mind, where I just sat quietly and observed.  What an incredible experience.  So here are a few more photographs because I just could not make up my mind which were my favorites!  These photographs are a bit darker but that way you can see more detail in the colors of the rainbow.  OH, and look for the double bow - another much fainter rainbow outside the main bow.  It is very faint but can be seen in some of these photographs.