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Double Rainbow

Written by Rocky Mountain Woman on November 30, 2011 – 1:02 pm -

This post is in honor of the letter “D” and part of Jenny Matlock’s Alphabet Thursday. For more delicious “D” posts, please click here http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/

One morning last spring, I woke to this:

So I decided to try and find out what phenomena might cause such a beautiful gift…

Inquiring minds want to know…

Wikipedia (another beautiful gift) says:

In a so-called “primary rainbow” (the lowest, and also normally the brightest rainbow) the arc of a rainbow shows red on the outer (or upper) part of the arc, and violet on the inner section. This rainbow is caused by light being refracted then reflected once in droplets of water. In a double rainbow, a second arc may be seen above and outside the primary arc, and has the order of its colours reversed (red faces inward toward the other rainbow, in both rainbows). This second rainbow is caused by light reflecting twice inside water droplets. The region between a double rainbow is dark, and is known as “Alexander’s band” or “Alexander’s dark band”. The reason for this dark band is that, while light below the primary rainbow comes from droplet reflection, and light above the upper (secondary) rainbow also comes from droplet reflection, there is no mechanism for the region between a double rainbow to show any light reflected from water drops.

Cool, huh?

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Thankful

Written by Rocky Mountain Woman on November 23, 2011 – 6:54 pm -

Linking up to Jenny Matlock to give thanks. For more thankful posts, please click here
http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/

A few things I am thankful for:

1. The beautiful Pink Lady apples I found today to make a pie for my grandchildren.

2. My old truck that just keeps on truckin….

3. I am thrilled that my local appliance store could deliver my new refrigerator today when my old one died a few days before Thanksgiving!

4. My friends and family, adopted and biological…always…

5. My job that allows me to take care of me and mine.

6. The crab apples my neighbor let me harvest from her tree.

7. My neighbors, I love them!

8. On line shopping.

9. My mountains. They inspire me every single day.

10. You! You all bring so much friendship and joy to my life…

Love,

RMW

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ROASTED CAPRESE SALAD

Written by Rocky Mountain Woman on November 16, 2011 – 1:01 pm -

This post is in honor of the letter “C” and part of Jenny Matlock’s Alphabet Thursday. For more curious “C” posts, please click here http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/

So, what do you do when you are craving tomatoes and the only tomatoes available are kind of sad and flavorless

Ask Ina, of course! Ta da! Ina Garten’s roasted caprese will rock your winter tomato eating world

Ingredient list:

12 plum tomatoes, halved lengthwise, seeds removed
1/4 cup good olive oil
1 1/2 T balsamic vinegar
2 large garlic cloves, minced
2 t sugar
Kosher salt and pepper from the mill
16 ounces buffalo mozzarella
12 basil leaves, julienned

Preheat oven to 275 degrees

Start by washing, halving and scooping the tomatoes