D – Day, golf, porterhouse steaks, and a rainbow

What do they have in common? i celebrated each, in it’s turn, today. Sixty Six years after the landing at Normandy, today’s world bears little resemblance to that one. The wars we are fighting today are not against a conventional enemy, and we cannot mount an Operation Overlord that would establish a beach head on enemy soil. We are already there, fighting an enemy that is more an idea than a regulated army. A Fourteenth century idea, but an idea nonetheless. . .

We went to Meadowbrook today, and played nine holes. My play was atrocious, but like Utah weather there were glimpses of something nice. i putted especially well.

After golf we threw a couple of steaks on the bar b que. A little sangria, and settled in to watch ‘Treme’ (one of the best shows imho, an American original – much like the city it portrays). As we watched, i had opened the door to the back patio. The sun was out, but we heard the tell-tale patter of big drops on the awning. Rain, accompanied by intermittent thunder and lightning.

i went on the back patio to see which direction the lightning was happening, and i saw it

rainbow

rainbow

In the West, threatening clouds gray and menacing. In the East, the last rays on the mountain and a rainbow. A pretty way to end the first week in June . . .

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