The perfect rainbow

Hello everyone,
The day after I got back from Montreal I went to buy my usual monthly edition of Vanity Fair...guess what was on the cover....Girl from Ipanema. I kid you not. I almost fell over in the convenience store. Landing in Calgary, after reading about the plight of the African children, here is this beautiful celebration of their tradition in the airport. I think I was meant to sit beside Ted on our flight to Winnipeg.
This morning I had to leave the house by 6:45 which is something I rarely do but I had to stop and get a coffee and a bagel to wake up. As I come around the corner of the drive through there is the most incredibly bright PERFECT rainbow. You could actually see where it started and ended. The full arch was as bright and full as you see on a postcard. I had never seen a rainbow like this before in my life. I have seen lots of "parts" of rainbows but this was the full arch in orange, purple, red and blue. It was incredible. I was running late but I just parked the car and stopped and stared. It was nature at it's best. If you know Aurora at all, the one arch "started" at the new Allstate headoffice on the north west side of the 404 and the other arch "ended" at the south east corner of the 404. So after being memorized by this for five minutes I unfortunately had to get going. As I started to drive, it occurred to me that in order to get to the airport I was going to have to drive through this perfect rainbow. As I was driving through it I couldn't help but wonder...was there something up in the sky that was trying to show or tell me something? I will never know but as I looked back in the rear view mirror I could not see the rainbow anymore. That is OK though. What I saw was enough. It will be something I will always remember. The perfect rainbow against the bright blue sky and me, with a small smile on my face.
I will not be able to add anything to the blog until Monday night now but I hope to have you all up to date about our Toronto walk next week. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention...WE DID IT!
With love and thanks,
M.J.