5-24: double rainbow

I moved my desk a while back, from the far right side of the apartment into more or less the center of my studio apartment and now, to my left I have a view out the window of glass that is the outside wall in the sleeping area of the apartment. I was sitting here yesterday, reading something or other online and looked to the left and saw a glorious rainbow, two of them in fact, and nearby too.

Here’s the "normal" view:

Looking south easterly towards Milwaukie, with the foothills of the Cascades in the far distance, the eastern border of the Willamette Valley..

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Yesterday I saw this:

"Wow!" I thought, and went out on the balcony with a camera.

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"Whoa! There really are 2 rainbows!"

They are mirror images of each other.

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I thought that maybe I should run to the car and drive real fast over there – there’s supposed to be a pot of gold under that rainbow, and boy, I sure could use me some gold!

Well.

The rainbow moved as I watched it and of course, it would move away as I drove to it and would disappear as I drove "under" it, and that pot of gold would move with it too, so I just contented myself with some pictures of this beautiful diffraction of the sunlight passing through the rain over that way.

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That white building on the left, the farthest one back, is a twin of my apartment building, a Clackamas County Housing unit, and the rainbow seems to point down into an industrial area, right onto, maybe, OR 99 (formerly US 99), McLoughlin Blvd.

I live near the borders of the two counties, Clackamas and Multnomah.  Both are names of Indian tribes that used to live in the area.

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I kept standing on the balcony, using different settings on my digicam:

I have lived in this apartment longer than anywhere else in my life, and why move?

Even if I could move, where would I find a view like this?

One of the best things to come out of that car wreck in 98 is this right here: the view from my balcony.

 

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