This has been a summer of rain. It’s surprising to me that we didn’t see more rainbows. It wasn’t for lack of looking. Every time I noticed sun shining on rain, I’d peek out the window in hopes of seeing one. I’d almost stopped looking when I spotted this one. It wasn’t any old rainbow. It was one hill over from the pasture. Dim and homely? Yes, but it was almost in our backyard! The wicked wisteria on the pergola was reaching for it as I pulled the camera from my pocket. I won! I caught it, and the wisteria didn’t.
Homegrown Rainbow
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Published by Anne Mehrling
I'm a retiree who loves to write about life in the mountains of North Carolina. View all posts by Anne Mehrling
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I feel blessed! A beautiful photo of a rainbow on Sunday morning. The day has amazing promise!
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Yes, the day has promise. I’m going to be scolded if I don’t hurry and get breakfast on the table!
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Just waiting to show its face 🙂
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Yesterday the sun was shining during a downpour. I didn’t see any rainbow but there must have been one somewhere. I swear I have mushrooms growing out of my body!
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LOL! The dampness is unrivaled here.
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They do seem to be few but aren’yyhey beautiful when they do appear.
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We have seen the most brilliant rainbows here in the mountains. We lived among trees on Long Island and hardly ever saw a rainbow.
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The most amazing rainbow I saw this summer was in North Carolina…
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Kudos to NC!! I’m glad you saw a good one here.
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I love rainbows- somehow they remind me of “hope”.
Susie
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Yes, hope. The rainbow is God’s promise that he will never again destroy everyone with a flood.
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I’ve been looking for a rainbow, but haven’t seen one lately.
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Even a ragged rainbow is better than none.
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Yes! I still remember the first time I saw a rainbow when I was standing on my Grandma’s front lawn:)
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That’s amazing! I can’t remember seeing my first rainbow.
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Oh I remember it because my grandma was good about photos and she snapped one of me at that moment
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Love the photo!
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Love the photo Anne! I also love those rainbows….full of promise and blessing.
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Great capture Anne and amazingly, it’s not in the sky, but across the bushes instead. I’ve never captured a rainbow’s image and can’t say I’ve even seen that many in my lifetime. Ann Marie saw one last year and texted the picture to me and I think I used it that day’s blog post.
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That’s the closest rainbow I’ve ever seen. There are many more bows here than we saw on Long Island.
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It was amazing. The one I used in the post by Ann Marie, we had a gulley-washer and within minutes after that torrential rain ended, the sun came out and was very bright and I never thought to look for a rainbow. Ann Marie went to take the trash out and said it was the biggest rainbow she’d ever seen.
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Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention in the other photo you posted. Quite lovely in both pics.
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Beautiful photo. I like how subtle it is. Good luck can come quietly to those who pay attention.
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If I were young, I would have run to look for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
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I think it is a good thing you are always searching for rainbows. It matches your sunny personality.
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Thank you for that positive vote. I’m a fun-loving pessimist inside.
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you and that wisteria! hahah!
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I’m rarely wistful about that wisteria.
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Oh my goodness! I don’t think I’ve ever seen a rainbow over land before! Great pic!
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Golly! I’ve never seen a rainbow over water!
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