Sometimes I stick around after the sunrise. The peak light can come and go within minutes, and quite frankly it’s difficult to enjoy it whilst trying to capture it. So, I’ll hang around for 10 or 15 minutes, maybe meditate for good measure, possibly thank the mountain gods for whatever I recorded on my camera, even try to pick up some garbage to appease those gods. As the sun got higher in the sky, the clouds over the Panamint range began to really break up. I could tell the weather was going to be warm today and the lake I was standing in would be gone by noon. And then it appeared. Not whole at first, maybe just a third, but eventually developing into the full arch of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. It’s tough to stand in the rain, especially if it’s a deluge, but if there was no rain, there would be no rainbow to look forward to.