A recent evening brought a magnificent rainbow just before dusk.

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It’s been awhile since my last post, in part because spring just couldn’t quite arrive in Giles county. Cold, rainy days rightly belonging to March continued to make weekly appearances until just before the Memorial Day weekend. Further, the powerful winter wind in Giles (ask a resident about it sometime) has been something of a spring time menace.

But Sunday evening’s shower, and the ensuing purple sky, seemed to finally wash all that away.

It was a rare occasion of seeing both ends of the rainbow, one side rising from just up the foothill across 460 and the other ending atop the neighborhood of Castle Rock Road.

The world appears a little differently when illuminated by a purple sky.

John Hildreth lives in Pembroke and teaches at Radford University.
www.radford.edu/jhildret