A bright spot in a gray day

It has been gray and dreary and cold (for Southern California) here for the past couple of days.

It was breezy when I left home at around noon and the roads were packed with cars.

I guess it is people out doing holiday stuff, but the traffic on the surface streets was awful.

It took me 25 minutes to go 6 miles to the freeway.

From there it only took 25 minutes to go the other 30 miles to work.

Drivers were just being so rude and stupid.

I really was glad to get to work just to be off the roads.

Of course, I would rather have been home with a fire in the fireplace and some soup bubbling on the stove.

Oh well. Maybe tomorrow after stamping.

Anyway, a few hours into work someone came over and said there was a great rainbow. We could see it from the window.

But I wanted a better view.

So I grabbed my camera and went to the top of the parking structure.

It was HUGE. It was a full arc over the whole sky. It was too big to all fit in the shot.

And you could see the full double-rainbow effect.

It was just beautiful.

I thought I got five or six shots off, but when I downloaded them there was only one.

Hmm??

But while I was outside one of the staff photographers came out and tried to get a shot, but the clouds had shifted and the rainbow was gone.

So my one shot ended up as a small photo on our local section cover and as the lead photo on our Web site.

At least until some other news breaks to replace it.

Nice.

Well, I must be off now.

Stay warm, stay dry and stay safe.