Oh My Darlin': Day 2 (Part II) - Just one second...

This afternoon had several hours of travel in store for us. The GPS kept trying to take us a different route than what we had mapped, but i kept ignoring it & we stuck to our original plan. Highway 50. Beka was driving, and Jenn & I were snapping pictures like crazy people. I love to take pictures...I don't love it as in "make it a career". I love it as in you only have seconds to get that one shot...then it's gone. That one second. That one picture. The emotion & feeling that you see in people's faces when they soak in that picture. It's an art. I want to be able to create that kind of emotional art...So back to today...Beka is driving and the day had been pretty uneventful. I had taken pictures like these...

So it was nothing great...Kansas sign & corn. There was nothing in Kansas but corn, so that's what I shot. After a while the sky began to darken and it began to pour. Beka drove while I prayed. I honestly thought my next photo opp would be a tornado. After what seemed like an eternity, we could see clear skies in the distance. The sun was setting and it created a canvas for pictures like these...

I was in love with these two pictures. They are straight out of camera shots. No editing or photoshop. I was proud. So we continue to drive. We were getting close to clear skies when I happened to glance over my left shoulder and saw the slightest rainbow. I immediately told Beka to pull over so I could get a picture...She did. I jumped out of the truck and realized that there were now two rainbows. I started clicking away. As i'm snapping, the rainbows literally came to life. They became an array of vivid colors. I'd never seen anything so bright...then as they brightened they stretched out all the way across the sky. These changes were happening in seconds. I could barely contain myself. Here I am, standing in the middle of Highway 50, in the middle of nowhere, hair blowing madly out of control, rain beginning to come down, and i'm literally almost crying. I still cannot grasp the concept that I was there...at that exact spot...at the right second. I had fought the GPS all day, I had prayed away the rain, & my amazing God used both of those things and gave me the perfect second. Here is what he gave me in that second....