Chasing Rainbows

The other week I kept encountering rainbows.  They were everywhere!  I began to rationalise that, with two young children and all their paraphernalia, there are going to be more of them around, but that just spoils the fun.

It started when I changed my desktop background to a series of amazing photographs of rainbows.  The next day, we went out for a walk on the Wirral together and saw some truly vivid rainbows in the sky on our way back home.  First there appeared one side of the arc, then later on, the other, and the density of colour was intense at some moments.  On the one hand, I lamented the lack of professional camera to try to capture such ephemeral beauty, but on the other, I was grateful just to take something away from it.

That evening I took two bedtime stories from the shelf to read to Aruna, and glancing at them, realised they each had a rainbow on the cover.  It is true, their stuff has rainbows on.  However...both books?  Well, you might say this was preconceived or highly likely given the day's sightings.  I kid you not, it was completely spontaneous and, therefore, ever the more surprising, given that out of 24 books on this particular shelf, only 3 had a rainbow on.  As the whole strange conjunction piqued my interest, I discussed the statistical likelihood of this happening with my husband (I don't need to do the maths, I have Raj) and it turns out to be about 1%.  How cool is that?!

I won't dwell too much on the rainbow tea cozy crochet project or the rainbow flannel I picked up at my mum's a day or two later, but suffice to say, the week was colourful and beautiful, full of marvellous eye candy, for me!