Rainbows.
How rare is a rainbow? Well, it depends on where you live and the atmospheric conditions, but prior to moving to Belgium, I suppose I'd seen about 5 rainbows in my life. It was always quite an event. Not like the "double rainbow guy" event, but still an event.
Since moving to Belgium, I've seen at least 5 and that's a conservative estimate. Of course, it does rain a lot here :) It's still quite an event to me.
I decided to start taking pictures when one appears at our house and in just the last ~3 months, there have been 3.
May 26
August 8
These next pictures are of a rainbow on
June 23
It was the best one so far.
Perhaps you can tell in this picture that there is a double rainbow. Unfortunately the photo never captures what it actually looked like out our window.
Did you know that the second rainbow is a mirror image of the first? Going from ROYGBIV to VIBGYOR?
Oh, and in case you've not heard of the "double rainbow guy" - here he is.
If you've got 3:30 to spare you may find this funny or even disturbing or just plain weird . . . OMG! What does it mean?!
Uh, it means that a double reflection of sunlight inside the raindrops appear at an angle of 50-53 degrees resulting in a secondary rainbow. That's about it, but I must admit, it's still amazing just the same.
Whoa. That was sort of like being with Noah when the flood was finally over. Or a high guy out in the wilderness. Once Ross and I were in Shreveport and we saw a full rainbow...just a single one, but it was kind of like that. Except not so "intense".
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