What a lovely day it has been today. The weather was just perfect. A real 'second of autumn' day.
We have 'light-catchers' in our window in the sitting room. These are prisms, crystals and other pieces of faceted glass which catch the sunlight and fill the room with chunks of rainbow of different sizes. The variations and patterns are amazing - little sturdy chunks about two by three inches up to spears of colour one inch by six feet.
Some of the crystals move while others are static. It make for a very magical display enhanced in its beauty by its very fact of its transitory nature.
Drea caught her breath and alerted me to one particular rainbow this afternoon. On the wall opposite the window is a writing bureau and on this there is a vase which Drea had made (she being a very good potter). A rainbow was hitting the vase and producing the most vivid hues.
The vase itself is a creamy white stoneware pot with a matt glaze, and the full spectrum of colours played on its surface like luminous velvet. It make the pot look like the home of the rainbow genie.
As the earth turned and the angle of the sun changed, the spectrum slowly slid off on to the wall with the seeming shadow pushing it off the vase. The final moments were like the last seconds of an eclipse or the final view of the setting sun as it slips under the horizon. The same kind of feeling as when the circus leaves town.
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