The sun had disappeared behind the trees on the hill behind Table Rock and behind the buildings on the top of the bluff and behind some clouds in the western sky behind them. But the water flowing over the falls was still that aqua blue/green, and it caught us spellbound.
But then the sun came out from behind the clouds, and although we were standing in the shadow of the buildings and the bluff and the trees, the sunshine hit the falls and the mist billowing up from beyond where the water falls out of sight, and a rainbow climbed into the sky.
It was light pastels at first but grew into deep colors arching out of the billowing wisps. My jaw dropped, and I expected to hear the crowd around us gasp, but they did not.
You see, this happens so often here on the Canadian side as the sun sets and cast its last rays down onto the falls. Bright rainbows climb up so often, that they don’t draw the gasps that I wanted to make.
I grabbed my camera instead.
