Intermittent sunshine with torrential rain today. Made the birds happy. They love to twitter in the branches, having impromptu baths and shaking out their wings after each downpour. It's like turning a hose up towards the sky - in no time you will have a variety of garden birds flying in and out of the spray, cleaning out the dust from their feathers.
I saw the brightest rainbow I have ever seen today - each colour was so intense and well-defined, like the ones you see in a children's picture book. I don't know what made it so, after all, the sun is always shining at the same intensity and the raindrops are still made of water, but it was really noticeable today. If only I had had a camera at the ready, but unfortunately I was driving at the time and it was gone by the time I got to my destination.
Having a camera in the cellphone is one of life's great pleasures - you can capture every moment (except rainbows, maybe!) at the drop of a hat. Every important event in your life can be recorded at no expense, and instead of having three or four photos covering each year of your child's life, you can make movies almost all day! I wonder if anyone will still look at them when they are older?
As usual, the sunset was a vibrant cerise, with low grey wisps in the foreground. That's another thing that seems more intense these days - sunrises and sunsets. The presence of high ice clouds has enabled us to enjoy nature's most spectacular paintings, and these have been freely shared on Facebook by a talented team of photographers from the Fish Hoek valley who bring these awe-inspiring images to the computer screens of ex-pats all over the world. Much appreciated!
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