
I had gone to the store to purchase a few breakfast items for the following week. When I exited the store, the sky had gone from a deep blue to a portentous heavy blue-gray and mist hung in the air. Droplets of water formed translucent igloos on the windshields of vehicles in the parking lot. The atmosphere was unbelievably heavy. I got into my car, put my bag of purchased items in the passenger’s side floorboard, and exited the parking lot. When I got to the stop sign and waited to turn left onto the main road, a massive rainbow stretched across the sky ahead of me. The humidity was so heavy that, when I photographed the bow with my iPhone, the lenses fogged, but the visual flash of the moment moved me as if it were a signature pregnant with promise and warning. Genesis 9 washed upon my mind.