I love rainbows. Full ones, half ones, double ones. Even the little mini ones that come off the crystals hanging in my window.
When I woke this morning, I could see the sun shining through the chinks in the curtain so I opened the curtains up to let the sunshine in, and my crystals sent gorgeous little rainbows skittering across the ceiling.
I jumped back into bed (it was cold!) and lay there admiring them. What a great start to the day.
As children we were taught that ROYGBIV gave you all the colours of the rainbow. I never could see any difference, when looking at a rainbow, between indigo and violet. All the other colours are quite distinct in a clear rainbow, but to me the blue always seemed to go straight into violet.
And then, not so long ago, I was reading that there are actually only six colours in a rainbow – red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet. The indigo was added to make seven colours, as men in the Victorian age were very much stuck on seven being a complete number in the Bible. As the rainbow was created by God, it obviously had to be complete and therefore had to have seven colours.
I have no idea if this is actually correct or not, but it makes me feel better about never seeing indigo in a rainbow!
May all your thoughts be as cheerful as a rainbow 😊
Margaret.
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