Rain, Rain, Go Away!

I hate to sound ungrateful, especially in a place like Southeast Idaho where rain is generally in high demand and short supply. But it has been raining for two weeks solid! (Okay, that may be a bit of an exaggeration--really, I can only honestly say that it has rained at least once a day for the last two weeks.) It may be more than two weeks; I sort of lost track. I know it was raining the last few days that the boys were getting over croup, then we had a few sunny days, and then came the rains. Sometimes it has been sunny during the day and rainy at night, so at least we can go to lunch in the park. But mostly it's just been sorta drizzly all day long with big gusty thunderstorms in the evening.

These pictures were taken clear back on the 24th of May. The boys were still a little sick and everyone was sick and tired of being stuck in the house like we had been for two weeks. Since it was raining, we couldn't do much so we took a drive (this just goes to show how bored David was-- he never just takes a drive, but this was his idea).

At first the rain is fun and the rainbows are beautiful. But weeks later, when there's not even enough sun to make a rainbow, things get a bit old.

I have always loved taking pictures from inside a moving vehicle. This is an old meandering highway that connects Pocatello to the neighboring town of Inkom. On the freeway, it's a ten-to-fifteen minute drive. On this highway it's closer to 45 minutes.

It takes even longer if there are cows in the road. These heifers were not scared of us! They didn't budge an inch, and that one on the center line was so close to our car she could've swished her tail and slathered our windshield with manure.

Toward the end of our drive we got a really good view of Pebble Creek Ski Area. Apparently there's gold there, as indicated by the end of the rainbow.