Spokane, WA Rainbow

August 28th, 2008 by The Spovangelist

I live for moments like these:

Last night I conducted a Flickr experiment:

Searching the terms “spokane rainbow” yielded 6 pages of fairly interesting results. What was even more interesting, however, was the discovery that almost every shot of a rainbow in Spokane (excluding the predictable river pictures and sky-only compositions) displayed some kind of jarring juxtaposition between this gorgeous natural phenomenon and some hideous human product:

Surface Parking North Side Sprawl

Trailer Park Cheap Chain Hotel

4 Lane Intersection Public Health Building

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4 responses so far ↓

1 Jonathan McKay Aug 28, 2008 at 8:35 am

I think the last photo is evidence that the Public Health building was designed by leprechauns, and they live in the domes at the top.
2 Rainbo Collective Oct 24, 2008 at 8:31 pm

[...] Spovangelist loves Rainbows. We also love Collectives. What could possibly be more exciting than combining the [...]
3 Brenan Oct 25, 2008 at 11:02 pm

wooooo pretty
4 Leio Mar 27, 2009 at 9:29 am

This reminded me of:

“When it looked like the sun would not shine anymore, God put a rainbow in the clouds”

-Maya Angelou

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