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It’s easy to write off quaint sayings like that as just so much oldtimey wisdom, without relevance in the hurry-up and get it done yesterday world we live in.
Fortunately, however, sometimes nature provides reminders that those old sayings are just as good as they ever were.
Just such a reminder was provided last week, in the form of a beautiful double rainbow which arched over Rappahannock County just before dark Monday evening. Several of my friends - both considerably more wordly-wise than myself—remarked that they had never seen such a beautiful rainbow, and indeed few more beautiful sights of any kind, in their many years.
It’s one of those times when I wished I could have alerted the entire county to the occurence, asked everyone to stop whatever they were doing and go outside. Brave the drizzle, I would have insisted. The reward would have been well worth the soaking.
That reminder of the natural beauty we are surrounded by was spectacular, to be sure. But we can see such beauty any day we choose, if only we take the time to appreciate it. The clean, fresh smell of the morning air last Friday, the call of a Whippoorwill outside my cabin at night, the irridescent green sheen of the new leaves of spring, fields of grass waving in the breeze, or the smell of fresh-cut hay; these sights, sounds and smells surround us all the time.
For friends from the city, they're remarkable, worthy of mention. To those of us who live here, they’re just part of living in the country. We’re more likely to mention the terrible plague of gnats and ticks this spring, or complain about the torrential rains of late.
But this magnificent, double rainbow was truly something to make me stop and take time to let it soak in.
My first reaction was, “Darn, I don’t have any color film in my camera bag!” I’ve discovered in the past,
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