01.10
Today when I went out for a walk in the grey, cold haze of really small snow crystals, I came down the hill and met this sight:
A rainbow. It was so beautiful that I just had to stop and take a photo. It was magical. Then I decided to walk on, happy about the beauty that nature sometimes just throw at me. I was not at all prepared for this when I came around the corner:
It was not an ordinary rainbow, it was a halo around the setting sun. It literally robbed me of breath for a moment and I stopped dead just staring at it. It was so beautiful I almost started crying.
And not only that; it was a double halo:
During this entire time, no one else had stopped. I had seen no one look up at this magnificent sight. I almost wanted to point at it and jump up and down in sad ecstasy and say; “Look! Look! Just look at that!” It was not until several minutes later a mother came from the train with her child someone noticed. But it was me it noticed at first; stopping, looking at me, noticing that I was looking up at something and then;
it grabbed its mother’s sleeve and said, in surprise; “Look mommy, the sun! The sun!”
Its mother looked up in awe for a moment and then she hurried on. To my knowledge, we were the only three that saw it until I met a person I know slightly and showed it to her through a window.
This makes me feel a bit sad.
The colours did not come out well in the photos, and they are a bit blurry. But this was an awesome sight AFK.
This is one of the reasons I never get bored at watching nature; it always has something beautiful and ephemeral to throw at me and to others at well. Just stop and have a look, and try to find it.
You can spare a minute a day, I promise. And it will be worth it.
/pao – 10 jan 2012 – 00.23
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