Tonight I went looking for grasshopper sparrows, their song sounds like grasshoppers — sort of. I found them and got a few pictures and in the meantime thunderstorms were sweeping all around me but not at my exact location, so I stayed put. Then the skies got real dark — too dark to take a picture and I started walking back to the rig, expecting to get swamped. But the shower somehow dissolved and the sun began to come out so I turned around and headed back. A big black cloud now loomed behind me and the skies were swirling and the sun was setting and then a perfect rainbow as the rain fell all around. The blotches are raindrops on the lens — even with a cloth at hand it was raining too hard to keep the lens clear. I shot most of the scene with a film camera that captured the rainbow in its entirety. But this is one of the few I took with the digital.