Storm's a Comin'....

We had a ominous looking thunderstorm approaching while I was relaxing at home, so Nimbin and I went to outside (to my screened in porch) to watch it roll in.

 

 

Pardon the lines in the clouds... that's my screen.

Nimbin sitting on his vacation home on the porch.

While I was watching the storm, I began noticing that far in the distance, some of the lower clouds were turning red.  I was trying to figure out why this would be... Was there a fire?  Was it the sun?  Was it just pink clouds from a far off sunset? The rhyme "Red in the morning, sailors take warning.  Red at night, sailors delight!" ran through my head.  But that just didn't make sense in this case.  It was night (or late afternoon at least) and if I was a sailor I definitely wouldn't be delighting in this.  But then something else began to take shape....

It isn't that easy to see in the pictures, but it was a rainbow!   Somehow, as the storm was rolling in, a rainbow made it's feeble attempt to show it's face.  It was pretty neat to see both lightning and a rainbow together so close in the same sky!  I wish my camera was sophisticated enough to get the lightning in the picture too.

The storm didn't end up amounting to much more than loud thunderbolts and frequent lightning... i.e. there was no rain this time.  But it was certainly spectacular to watch!