Impressed By A Rainbow

              Rainbow, left (north), Denver August 21st 2013

I am fairly certain the last time I was overwhelmed by a rainbow I was not yet 10. Today, as I drove down Sheridan just past 84th, as the rain began to let up (deluge to drizzle in about 30 minutes), I caught sight of the most impressive rainbow I can readily recall.

It was a double rainbow, though as usual the second arc was much fainter than the first.

The primary arc of this double rainbow was so much brighter, and the inside of the primary arc so much whiter, it sparked long dead sci-fi ideas of living life under a dome in my head.

               Rainbow, right (south), Denver August 21st 2013

This particular spectrum of light was also very big, so big it could not fit into one picture. I walked back, back, back until I ran out of room trying to get a picture of the full arcs of the inverse twin rainbows.

It amazes me how rainbows can still amaze me. I understand fully that they are just the reflection of light through water particulate in the Earth's atmosphere, but damn, they are pretty.