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In a world of beauty, the rainbow stands alone—a grand and colourful coda to the tumult of a storm. Its stunning place in Nature’s pantheon has given it a somewhat unusual place in the human psyche: it has inspired myth makers, artists and scientists; it has been pressed into service in support of an amazingly wide range of human activities from rum to religion; it has been rendered graphically with capricious shapes and colour combinations. Indeed, so extensively have rainbows been used as metaphors for every conceivable human condition, that this plethora of symbolic, promotional, and graphical bows has taken on a life of its own. Certainly, these metaphorical bows bear scant resemblance to the natural bow from which they descended. While the story of the human interpretation of the rainbow is a fascinating one, it is not the theme offered here. Rather, the crayons are left behind and I look at the natural bow. I like rainbows—what can I say, I like them enough to have written a boo

Kootenay Lake >> Light play >> rainbows Rainbows In a world of beauty, the rainbow stands alone-a grand and colourful coda to the tumult of a storm. Its stunning place in Nature’s pantheon has given it a somewhat unusual place in the human psyche: it has inspired myth makers, artists and scientists; it has been pressed into service in support of an amazingly wide range of human activities from rum to religion; it has been rendered graphically with capricious shapes and colour combinations. Indeed, so extensively have rainbows been used as metaphors for every conceivable human condition,

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