today, i had the choice of going to circuit city or del mar shores for lunch. and i didn't go to either. so making a little bit of an effort to make it out, i asked for a 30 min break at 3:30 and headed out to del mar shores. and i'm glad that i did. i went there to check out the waves thrash onto the beach because of the massive storm we have in california.


and as i was pretty much getting ready to leave, i look at my rear view mirror and see this amazing rainbow....so vibrant in color that it looked fake. i just couldn't believe my eyes.


until today, i didn't know that a rainbow could be so rich in color. i have seen some nice rainbows in the past....but nowhere near colorful as this one. most of the rainbows i have seen were just faint arcs showing off the spectrum of color. but today i saw the whole thing. from one end of the rainbow to another spanning over a few miles.


unfortunately these video's don't do it justice because it didn't really capture the depth of the color, and the rain clouds behind them appear a lot darker than they were. but it's good at showing you the whole rainbow from one end of the arc, to the other end.



just occured to me today that the word "rainbow" comes from the "rain". i knew that rainbows and rain go hand in hand, but always thought of rainbows and rain as entirely different words.



as you can see i finally turned my web cam around so that the "michael live" actually means michael live. so i'll try to keep it there for at least this week.