Month of Rainbows

So far this month I seem to have come across more than the usual number of rainbows, and at times when I have had a camera with me. I'm not sure what Mother Nature is trying to tell me, but I clicked away energetically and managed to achieve a couple of results that are not too dire.

The first was a couple of weeks ago when we were on holiday. Driving home via Strensall Common we saw a lovely double rainbow, so we pulled over to try and capture it/them.

Strensall Common is not only a designated Special Area of Conservation - which appears to mean sheep can wander down the middle of the road without anyone minding - but is also host to an army training facility.

We tried to catch the rainbows again at Castle Howard but they had faded too much to show up well in the photo.

All of which was very nice, but this afternoon we were out taking pictures of the village to prepare for the Village Reunion next weekend. We are going to put some pictures up to make a small exhibition of how the village has changed over the past 50 years or so, and wanted to get some more recent views for comparison. I might manage to put an entry together some time around that.

But the point of this post is that there was another of those cheeky rainbows right over St Laurence's.

St Laurence's is a lovely old church, dating back to Saxon times, and updated over the years especially by the Victorians. I think a rainbow just sets it off nicely.

As the rest of the village was also looking lovely in the autumn sunshine, I'll close with a picture of it as well, even though there are no rainbows in this one. It is almost opposite the church, walking back up towards the main part of the village.