can't sleep, and it's a good thing too! as i was doing a zhan zhuang exercise on the balcony (with the same weird spontaneous movements), i happened to open my eyes, and saw the at first indistinct shape of a rainbow, only it was kind of silvery, like a large silver arch: if i looked very closely at "bright" regions of this archway, i could just make out colors, only they were "washed out" and less distinct than in a day rainbow. now, just to describe the particular conditions. there appears to be a cloud front coming out across the channel between molokai and maui, with a thin haze of indistinct rain (almost a fog, a shimmer). but the moon up above is either full or almost full. so when there is a space in the clouds, the bright moonlight is able to refract through the night mist to form this silvery "night rainbow." i actually woke lynn up to witness it, and she made some comment like "cool" before drifting back to sleep... maybe i should do the same too, but i'm just too excited.
i tried to capture it on film, but it's much too dark. flashes just flatten the image, while no flash just gets lost in the dark depths (again, it's a mix between cloudy night sky with gaps of silver moonlight- difficult by definition to capture).
but i can say: night rainbows DO exist!
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