Monday, June 12, 2006

Rainbows...of the Garden Variety Kind

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I have always loved rainbows. We're talking since I was a child...and I'm in the middle of my fourth decade right now, so that's a long time.

As a kid, whenever the sky was dark and menacing following a rainstorm or a thunderstorm, but I caught a glimpse of a rainbow peeking through the gloominess, I'd run through the house shouting, "Come look...there's a rainbow...come see it!"

For some reason, perhaps because rainbows have a magical, awe-inspiring and mystical sense about them, I never thought they could be captured on film. As a young teen, I'd traveled on a frosty December day to Niagara Falls for a Jewish youth trip, and suddenly saw a rainbow over the Horseshoe Falls amidst the iciness of the scene. Still not believing the photo would develop to show the rainbow, I was thrilled when it did. That personal misconception of mine was gone.

But you have to admit that rainbows are beautiful with their spectrum of colors, a beautiful palette for the eyes. They are something to view and appreciate, and for that reason we are to say a special bracha/blessing upon viewing one.

It is rare for me to see a rainbow. An oil spill on pavement can sometimes provide the closest thing to a rainbow; look closely at a fine opal and you will see something of a rainbow in the stone; my diamond engagement ring reflects the light and creates color prisms on the ceiling...but still not a true rainbow.

I have recently discovered how to bring a rainbow into my everyday life. I go out to our backyard, turn on the garden hose and cast a mist spray over our vegetable garden or lawn. Voila! A rainbow.

And I am a happy little girl once more...


(that is not a picture of our backyard; however we also have a playhouse/storage in our yard)

5 comments:

socialworker/frustrated mom said...

Gorgeous picture and beautiful post about it. A rainbow is really something else.

Sarah Likes Green said...

lovely post and picture :)

David_on_the_Lake said...

:-)
sweeeeet

torontopearl said...

Thank you, all. I wish each of you plentiful beautiful rainbows in your life. (without the storms!)

justgraham said...

I am the photographer who took this photo and it is of course in my backyard or garden as we say here in Switzerland.

I just wanted to thank you for posting this on the 12th of June as coincidentally it happens to be my birthday.

The phot is in the gallery on my old site but ever you are interested you can see my latest posts at http://www.justgraham.net.

Have a nice day! Graham.