Clarity

The weather, although no good for the type of cycling that I like to do, is lovely at the moment. It's windy, though not scarily so, and the rain comes down now and then in a lovely swoosh - I can hear it hammering on the roof right now. I like the way it makes me feel snug and cozy. The way it cleans the air and makes is smell cool and fresh and damp is something I really enjoy - even more so now that the last vestiges of smoking-related dullness of my senses has long since gone. The new greens of the trees are brilliant - even jewel-like.

My Great-Grandmother once told me it's impossible to take photographs of rainbows. Maybe in her day, with the photographic technology that was available, that may have been so. I didn't bother to try to photograph rainbows for years. Until one day, I tried just on the offchance. Ever since, I've taken photographs of every rainbow I've seen where possible.