And this is why I didn’t sign up for Project 365. The past days have been swallowed up with this thing or other, that weekly (much less daily!) blogging has been impossible. I have a few topics that I wanted to write about, but just never got around to it. I’m hoping that those posts will see the light one of these days.

For today, I want to share with you a very rare event in these parts of the world at this time of year. Background: In January, we’re usually under several inches deep of snow and several weeks’ worth of cloudy days. The sun shines only occasionally. Even more unusual is rain. To have these two come together at the same time is an extremely rare thing indeed.

And so, we were blessed and very excited to see this in our backyard last Sunday:

Twin rainbows. And these were not just tiny half-hearted things either. They were full-arc ginormous rainbows. I couldn’t get the entire span in one photo; I had to take three!

I have never been so excited to see a rainbow as I was on that day. I’m always thrilled to see these gorgeous colors in the sky, and it’s been a while since the last time I saw something like this. I piled coats on the kids and practically shoved them out the back door. I wasn’t going to let them miss this!

The camera really didn’t capture all its beauty, but I’m very glad I have these pictures to remind me of this day. It had been raining/drizzling the whole day (rather depressing, actually). I remember looking out my kitchen window at the field of wild grass behind our house. It was all orange from the setting sun. And that’s when I saw it. There was just a small window before the sun disappeared and the rainbow with it.

Rainbows are reminders of God’s promise to Noah that He will never send a flood to cover the whole earth again. To me, a rainbow brings to mind God’s promises in general. And that He still sends silent testaments of His faithfulness. I just have to take the time to listen.