A double rainbow along Interstate 10 north of Tucson yesterday added a touch of hope to the dark Friday of the Connecticut elementary school shootings. A storm, sweeping across the desert southwest, brought pounding rain and gusty wind and ominous clouds.
It was late afternoon. I was driving north to pick Ed up at the airport. On the car radio, NPR news was parsing the events of the morning at the school out East. It was surreal to be hearing the tragic particulars and then lift eyes to the hills and see such beauty.
I stopped at a rest area to photograph and realized that I was not the only one with a camera. There were two, then three, then four of us -- all pointing lenses toward the brief colors and exquisite light. Bound together for a few moments by a double rainbow, we nodded to one another and then climbed back into vehicles and continued our individual journeys.
On a day of so much despair, the rainbows were a welcome, if fleeting, bond, on a dark, dark day.
Copyright 2012
Wanda Hayes Eichler
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