rainbow

We had a really impressive rainbow, or maybe series of rainbows, outside our window early this evening: what I saw at first was an intense splash against gray cloudes near the ground in the southeast, and a fainter partial arc higher in the sky/toward the north. That was a bit hard to see because of the intense spots of sunlight reflecting off the glass-coated skyscrapers to our east. Then it faded, then I looked again a bit later and we had a full arch of rainbow, with a fainter, partial double rainbow. I watched for several minutes, and then (after it faded some) we went down to the supermarket, where I thought there might be a corner of rainbow through the window as we paid for our groceries.

We came back up here and put things away, and I looked east again, hoping: there was a gorgeous arc, now seeming a little further north, and fully above the skyscrapers to the east, which had blocked part of the first rainbow. So I looked out the window for a few more minutes.

I'm not sure if there are more rainbows here than in New York for meteorological reasons, or if I'm noticing them more for some reason. Maybe some of both: I am fairly sure I never saw that intense a rainbow out my window in Manhattan, nor one that lasted so long.