night rainbow

I painted this coconut of a night rainbow. A few weeks later after I sold it, I saw a night rainbow!

I was camping out with my boys on the beach. It was night and we were playing on the sand and making a round track running in it.

There were night fisherman out on the beach too. The were using glow in the dark bait and bobbers. Each cast looked like they were casting shooting stars. The green glow would race up into the sky and then fall slowly down into the ocean. It was so dark out there. No light. The stars were so bright above the ocean. There were a few very small drifting clouds sprinkling little drops of rain. It was luxurious after such a long hot day. After while the moon rose behind us. It was that extra bright moon that happen in the end of August. A brilliant night rainbow stretched across the ocean and way up into the starry dark sky. The ends of the rainbow connected two islands! ours and another across the channel! The colors were just as vivid only the back ground was all dark starry sky.

And it arched way up high 32 miles across to our neighboring island. We were so excited. We danced all around the beach and then went back to our camp and roasted marsh mellows at 10PM.

I thought about how I painted a prediction. The painting and the actual experience were different but came from a same vision. I couldn't help but be reminded in the power of visualization and actually making your ideas and inspirations become reality. I also saw the rainbow as a reminder of my own creative power and that I have been blessed that someone is watching over me. It was a reminder that God is here and things are working for me right now on this deserted remote island in ways I do not yet know. to have hope and faith.

I saw one other night rainbow in canyon country. It was a rainbow circling the full bright moon. A perfect ring of colors surrounding the moon. time to get busy and paint them both on canvas this time! this coconut has two more sides painted to it as well.