Rainbow Break!
Jun. 4th, 2014 02:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bloodyrosemccoyI was sitting with my fellow Space Place Educators today, waiting for the next presentation and discussing things like the merits of Dragonlance* and the questions Darmok raises about the Universal Translator and how Cracked is more journalistic than actual journalism (I have found my people), and suddenly another Space Placer dashes over.
"You've got to come outside!" she yelled. "There's some kind of rainbow thing you've got to see!"
So we all followed her outside, and sure enough there was a goddamn fire rainbow** hanging in the east, over my mountain.
Once again, living in a panorama has its advantages. I think I've seen circumhorizon arcs before, but it was never quite as dramatic as the one in the link. This one showed you why the term FIRE RAINBOW was used. Because dang, that thing may not be fire OR a rainbow, but by god it's majestic enough that it needs a majestic name.
*Raistlin, pretty much. And maybe Caramon, but only in the context of Raistlin.
**Okay, yeah, officially they're called circumhorizon arcs, but screw you, FIRE RAINBOW is way cooler. As a coworker put it, "Well, now that I know it's called a FIRE RAINBOW I have to go look at it again!"
"You've got to come outside!" she yelled. "There's some kind of rainbow thing you've got to see!"
So we all followed her outside, and sure enough there was a goddamn fire rainbow** hanging in the east, over my mountain.
Once again, living in a panorama has its advantages. I think I've seen circumhorizon arcs before, but it was never quite as dramatic as the one in the link. This one showed you why the term FIRE RAINBOW was used. Because dang, that thing may not be fire OR a rainbow, but by god it's majestic enough that it needs a majestic name.
*Raistlin, pretty much. And maybe Caramon, but only in the context of Raistlin.
**Okay, yeah, officially they're called circumhorizon arcs, but screw you, FIRE RAINBOW is way cooler. As a coworker put it, "Well, now that I know it's called a FIRE RAINBOW I have to go look at it again!"
