The Sky, She Beckons Me

The sky offered up some pretty sweet surprises this weekend.

Friday night had everything - warm temperature, little humidity, and not a cloud to be seen. A rare trifecta of Midwestern summer evenings. As the sun went down, a little bit of fog descended over the lower part of my backyard. 

I like the fog that settled over the yard. It made for a groovy view. Do you see the crescent moon? Kinda looks like a fingernail hanging up there.

And if you're going to get mooned, then this crescent moon is the way to go. Beats the alternative, doesn't it?

Just my personal opinion, of course.

Saturday Tata called.

Me: Hello?

T: What are you doing?

Me: Talking to you.

T: Grab your camera and go outside.

Me: Okay. Why?

T: I walked out of Target and everyone was staring up at the sky so I had to look, too. There is a rainbow up in the clouds.

Me (walking outside): I'm looking up in the clouds and I don't see a rainbow … which direction are you facing? North? South? What?

T: Um … let me check. Forward. I'm facing forward.

I should probably point out that I'm not friends with T because of her wonderfully acute sense of direction.

But you probably figured that out all on your own.

Me: … still not seeing a rainbow …

T (growing impatient with my a my lack of skills in knowing which direction 'forward' is to her current position on the planet): Look straight up in the sky, doofus! It's a rainbow around the friggin' sun!

Okay. So she really didn't say doofus, but I know she was thinking it.

I looked up, saw the rainbow, and clicked the shutter on my camera.

Then I looked at the small display screen on the back of my camera and realized that the sun and rainbow weren't in proper focus, so I reshot the photo.

Phooey. The sun and rainbow still weren't in focus.

Lather, rinse, repeat about fourteen more times before I figured out what my problem was: it's really hard to look directly at the noonday sun without severely screwing up your eyes. Kinda hard to focus on a bright burning orb in the sky. My rods and cones were messed up for hours, man.

But I did get one decent shot. 

Haven't decided if it was worth permanently screwing with my rods and cones though. Pin It Now!