After the rain

17 Responses to After the rain

1. AnAmericanMother says:

   4 May 2010 at 7:27 pm

   Double rainbow!

   Very nice. Looks like it ought to be on a Tourist Board calendar.
2. Mary Bruno says:

   4 May 2010 at 7:51 pm

   Beautiful!
3. wanda says:

   4 May 2010 at 8:22 pm

   Beautiful.

   ‘As the bow appears in the clouds, I will see it and recall the everlasting covenant that I have established between God and all living beings-all mortal creatures that are on earth.’
   Gen. 9:16
4. Agnes says:

   4 May 2010 at 10:51 pm

   Ahhhhh. Hope.
5. lacrossecath says:

   5 May 2010 at 7:52 am

   Saw some down in La Crosse too while that band of storms went through.
6. Jack007 says:

   5 May 2010 at 8:14 am

   Life is good, huh Father? :-)

   WDTPRS

   What Does the Photo Really Say?

   Jack in KC
7. FranzJosf says:

   5 May 2010 at 8:38 am

   Absolutely Beautiful. Reminds me of my childhood in Ohio.

   The glory of God’s Creation and the work of men’s hands.
8. wanda says:

   5 May 2010 at 8:43 am

   Jack, Very good. I like that..pretty sharp.
9. Andrew says:

   5 May 2010 at 9:46 am

   Irim de caelo misit Iuno.
10. ssoldie says:

    5 May 2010 at 10:08 am

    Wow, beautiful, the wonder of God.
11. Ef-lover says:

    5 May 2010 at 10:09 am

    Beautiful rainbow, I wonder what is on the other side.
12. Henry Edwards says:

    5 May 2010 at 10:13 am

    A really lovely photo showing that secondary rainbow about 9 degrees higher in the sky than the primary rainbow at 42 degrees.

    Some readers will know that the primary rainbow results when a light ray from the sun, traveling generally away from the viewer, enters a water droplet and is reflected off the back side of the droplet back toward the view. The secondary rainbow results from light rays that undergo two reflections (instead of a single reflection) within raindrops suspended in the sky.

    The mathematics of rainbows is as beautiful as the rainbow itself.
13. FranzJosf says:

    5 May 2010 at 10:28 am

    Henry: From your various posts, I think that you like classical and sacred music as well as mathematics. Have you read Emblems of the Mind: the Inner Life of Music and Mathematics, by Edward Rothstein? A wonderful book on man’s ability to map sound and the physical world and the accompanying properties of both. I think that you would enjoy the book.
14. Fr. John Zuhlsdorf says:

    5 May 2010 at 10:29 am

    Henry: Very cool.

    Of course my most memorable rainbow moment was this:

    

    Alme Sol, curru nitido diem qui
    promis et celas aliusque et idem
    nasceris, possis nihil urbe Roma
    visere maius.

    - Horace
15. mburduck says:

    5 May 2010 at 11:04 am

    How beautiful! I’ll be looking for such a rainbow as I drive from Duluth up to International Falls next week on my way to fish in NW Ontario.

    Mike
16. irishgirl says:

    5 May 2010 at 11:59 am

    ‘I will set My bow in the clouds…”

    Beautiful picture, Father Z!

    Yesterday a nasty storm blew through my neck of the woods. I was terrified! Luckily I was in the library, but I had to shut off my computer as a precaution! Then later on I saw some tree limbs down in a village square.
17. Henry Edwards says:

    5 May 2010 at 12:29 pm

    FranzJosf: I’m acquainted with the general theme, but not with Rothstein in particular. Thanks for the reference. I’ll see if I can take a look at it.