Oh, man… I just went out to lock up the feathered ones at the tail end of a light rain. The clouds had begun to disperse, yielding to end-of-day light from the setting sun, and the air smelled fresh and cool. As I locked the roosting chickens safely into their shed for the night and turned to go back to the house, I was stopped in my tracks by the sight of an ENORMOUS rainbow, arcing from east to southeast, the colors vivid enough against the still-grey sky to glow through the electric greens of emerging foliage at the horizon.

I just stood and let the sight wash over me for several minutes as the last drops of rain from the departing clouds splashed about my shoulders and head like a Spring benediction.

That sight is going to stay with me for a while.

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