Ever seen a rainbow come out at night? No? Well, here you go.

It was a dark and stormy night … almost. It was actually about seven o’clock in the evening when I snapped this photo. A passing squall had turned what is usually still full daylight into near-night, and incidentally dumping about a quarter-inch of rain on Our Humble O’Bode and the surrounding neighborhood in the space of about a half hour.

Then, the edge of the squall opened just a crack in the western sky at exactly the minute the sun was setting, gilding the clouds to the west in a brilliant gold and painting this rainbow across the still-falling rain in the east.

I took the liberty of doing a little photoshopping to this photo to get the rainbow to pop out of the background. It was already rather faint, and my little pocket camera isn’t quite up to capturing a sight as etherial as a rainbow in all its brilliance, so I had to help it along just a bit. If I were better at photoshop, there would be more color, but I’m not.