This was the view of an area south of my vantage point getting soaked.
After leaving Grand Lake I saw this young lady and her two horses resting in a wildlife viewing area near Granby. She had been riding one and escorting the other, which is a rescue horse.
As I drove north on Route 125 I saw this shaft of light to my left. At first I thought it was rain, but after watching it from various angles and comparing it with other rain shafts I decided it is just light, caused by a hole in the thick clouds through which the sun was shining.
Then I noticed an unusual thing to my right. I had seen the same phenomena a few days ago in southern Wyoming. Rainbows are generally arcs of color in rain mist which appear to exist on their own. This was a colorful cloud, with a much wider color band. I had never seen anything like it before a few days ago and now here is another one! I’ll be posting the other one when I get some of my picture backlog caught up.
When I got to the little town of Walden and turned right to take Route 14 back to Fort Collins, I noticed this sign which I thought looked really cool.
And as I drove east on Route 14 I noticed a conventional rainbow with a nice mountainous background.
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