An omen?

After days of gloom, of having to go looking for sunshine, we had some of our own today, though interspersed with dramatic clouds and sudden showers. At least I was able to walk to and from my painting lesson, whose venue is actually in view from my window - just before you get to that tallish building on the sea front, where the Education Offices are housed. I spent two hours doing minute roofs and bushes on this small watercolour I've been working on - I really am not making proper use of the medium, but right now it suits me. 

An unsatisfactory phone call to my doctor decided me to make a determined effort to see the optician tomorrow - the eye bothers are back with a vengeance and are becoming rather dominant at the moment. However, my mind was taken off it for an hour this afternoon when we had a Zoom meeting of the joint vestries with our new Bishop to work out the timetable for the vacancy - we're on the point of putting out our advertisement now. When the meeting had ended and I stood up to go and do something about dinner, I saw this segment of a rainbow right outside my study window - I'm choosing to see it as a good omen, like Noah or something.

We had choir tonight - another small turnout, but some good hard work and a new piece whose text is originally Japanese - interesting to be working on  a sheet of music with such a totally different text on it from anything we ever see in our lives. It's a lovely piece, though.

And now I'm off to have some tea before bed. And in the morning I'm going to phone the optician ...