Over the weekend my awesome gal, Martina and I car-camped up above North Fork Reservoir in the southern Sawatch Range near Salida. As sunset approached, she and Baby the Wonder Chihuahua took a little walk up the trail to explore some old mine buildings. I joined her briefly before telling her I was heading down to nearby Billings Lake to try for some sunset reflection photos of the surrounding peaks. Looking over towards Pomeroy Peak, I noted that the late-day sun was backlighting a bright orange curtain of rain that looked like it was headed in our direction. I shouted a warning of the impending showers to Martina, and while she headed back to camp, I hoofed it down to the lake, thinking that if it was as brief a shower as I suspected, maybe I'd get a rainbow reflected in the lake.
The wind blew so hard that there was no chance of a reflection on the choppy surface of the lake, but sure enough, a rainbow appeared over the shoulder of Calico Mountain, just as sunset alpenglow light turned the already reddish peak to a brilliant, warm glow. In this case, half right was right enough.
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