FOTO FRIDAY: LOOKIN' UP

FOTO FRIDAY is about 'looking up' and not with regards to the election season but as in looking up at the clouds. They have been spectacular this week as I'm sure others have noticed too. I didn't have to look too far up for this low lying cloud as I left the End of the Rainbow Valley. 

This morning's sky continued to not disappoint.

A couple of hills over Bob caught this sky off his backyard prairie. He added "Yesterday was like a grand "show". Spectacular cumulus and cumulo-nimbus clouds everywhere you looked. And the show just kept changing all day long. A Joni Mitchel day...."

Indeed, it was. How 'bout you? Share some stunning sky sights. 

Take a look at Pinque's Colorado sunset. She said. "It was a wild storm yesterday but it made an amazing sunset...."

Kaye and Shep just recently returned from a car trip enjoying the skies of New Mexico and before that N.C. Can't wait for next month!

Rooftop Bar Alburquerque, N.M.

Waynesville, NC

And look how today's storms painted our sky upon departure with a double rainbow.

Last week was POTTY HUMOR and I am still awaiting more one liners.

FOTO FRIDAY: REFRACTING

FOTO FRIDAY:  People often ask me how our valley got its name, End of the Rainbow Valley. For those of you have missed that story it actually happened on a day very similar to Thursday with a morning of dreary overcast, misty weather interspersed with rain showers. At the very end of the day, the sun broke through the clouds during a light rain shower. And there appeared a very intense rainbow that from afar looked like it ended right in our valley. 

Well, by the time we left at 7pm last night to pick up friend Jean en route to movie night, the dark clouds blanketed the upper skies creating a horizon, the sun had cast an unusual light upon whatever it hit beneath its glow. There after turning onto Jean's street was a miniature rainbow. It was just three houses in length. Have you ever seen a rainbow that close and little? Above it stretched another much larger rainbow whose ends we couldn't see. It was a double rainbow day, how special!

Here's the small rainbow which was much more intense. 

Left side

Right side

Do you have any rainbow stories /photos you'd like to share?

Carol from the other side of the Mississippi in Minnesota shared her view of last night's rainbow.

Jennifer caught this refracting going on. Kewl, eh?

Travelling buddy Cheryl added to last week's FOTO FRIDAY, did you catch  STUCK UP?