Each time my oldest daughter and I go somewhere together, just the two of us, something magical happens. This almost-four-year old is a magical creator and I’m grateful to her for pointing things out to me that I normall wouldn’t see.
Several weeks ago we were on a “date” of sorts – just the two of us, driving along toward the ice cream shop.
“Look Mommy!” she exclaimed, as she pointed out the window.
What I saw was something I had never before seen in my life, but had heard about only a couple of weeks before. It was a rainbow, but not really. It was a horizontal “rainbow” in the sky – thick in the middle, with only three colors: pink, yellow, and blue/green. The “rainbow” sort of just ended in a cloud.
As I drove I marveled at this site and remembered a friend telling me that she had seen a similar thing at the beach only weeks before. This was exactly what she described.
Later, a friend pointed me toward this site which explained what it was that we saw. A circumhorizon arc.
Very very cool! When we got to the ice cream place it was gone. I looked at it out my window until we reached our destination. As soon as we got out of our car it had disappeared.
