the 4rth

My 4rth: watched a highly dramatic, gorgeous thunderstorm from the balcony (which faces the Sandia mountains). We are talking hours of preparatory greenish sky off in one direction, while the rest was blue and clear with fluffy white clouds, followed by tremendous thunder, sharp cracks of lightning, sudden winds and driving rain... and as the rain and wind gentled down, the most beautiful rainbow I've ever seen: perfect, double, a complete semi-circle, one inside the other, with the outer one in the reverse color order to the first. The whole arc within the two bows appeared brighter than the surrounding, and almost perfectly framed the mountain in my view, as if the double rainbow was a portal to another, more magical realm. Breathtaking.

After that, the fireworks were pretty much an anti-climax.