Earlier this morning I was driving to the local recycling center and could see through the trees, a rainbow arching across the sky. By the time that I had arrived and parked up, it had diminished in size but was still there. 🌈
Rainbows
With increasing regularity, I have been posting images of rainbows that I have seen. Most of these are taken in Maui, where I live, though there are a handful from elsewhere. I decided to collect all of these photographs together and show them in a single page. As of this page going live, Monday 14th May 2025, there were 89 photos of rainbows on the site.
The images start with the first rainbow posted to this website. That was on 23rd December 2018. They then work forward through the days, months and years to the most recent (as of this page going live was two days ago, 12th April 2025).
Return to this page to see updates. 🌈
The wet and windy weather continues and with it the rainbows. Here is this morning’s. 🌈
Wednesday, November 12, 2025 →
I watched this rainbow, these rainbows form this morning. In fact I took photos at different stages thinking, “That’s it, it’ll fade soon,” and then this double rainbow emerged. 🌈
A Collection of Words, Gathering Thoughts
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
I don’t know where this post will go? I am writing with a migraine. My head is telling me to rest, to get away from the screen. However it is raining outside, no one is around and I had a full and emotional weekend and feel that I want to just get some words out. I have ideas of what those words might cover and those ideas are all vying for my attention so I don’t think any one subject will arise front and center, and some will probably not even make an appearance here. It’s almost as though I have to get the mess out before anything else can make its presence felt.
Yesterday morning’s briefly visible rainbow. I’m sure that there were many more as the day was very wet, but I was attending an event and did not get to see them. 🌈
This morning’s rainbow. It appeared gradually this morning. At first teasing, a faint colour in the sky hinting that a rainbow was there and yet maybe it wasn’t. Slowly the colours deepened and the arc of the rainbow grew, starting on the right and steadily reaching across the sky to what you see in the photograph. 🌈️
There were a number of rainbows this morning. They all formed in pretty much the same area of sky and so instead of showing the whole gamut of rainbows that appeared, I am going with the first one that I saw as I stepped outside this morning….and I didn’t get many photos of the others anyway 😏 🌈
Changing things up a bit. A black and white photograph of a rainbow, along with the moon yesterday evening. 🌈
Yes there were rainbows today. 🌈
This one from this morning:
And this one from this afternoon:
About to pull out of the local recycling center this evening I spotted this rainbow. 🌈
This morning’s double rainbow. 🌈
Catching Up on Rainbows
Sunday, October 26, 2025
Last week’s busyness and frustration saw me not posting any rainbow photos. That does not mean that there were none, as there most certainly were. I captured a number of them and am now posting them here in order to catch up.
Juggling Pages on My Website
Saturday, October 18, 2025
I spent today making a few cosmetic changes to my website. For the most part longer posts to my blog are headed with a title. This isn’t always true. There are a couple of longer posts which are without a title, but it is true enough for that to be a guiding light for how to find a longer post here. Thinking that some visitors might prefer to go straight to longer posts, or at least have a doorway that leads directly to them, I have added a new menu item to the navigation bar, Longer Reads.
The rainbows are starting to appear with increased abundance now. One that I missed last night while we were out eating presented itself in dark vivid colours at dusk. The wetter weather of the last couple of days is definitely helping.
This double rainbow appeared this morning. 🌈
This morning’s rainbow. It did not join, but the two ends were visible as shown in the two photographs. 🌈
…And this afternoon’s rainbow. Two rainbows in a day, one at either end, maybe the sign of wet weather returning? 🌈
This morning’s rainbow 🌈
What Does AI Make Of Me?
Monday, October 13, 2025
With a dose of curiosity I recently asked Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s ChatGPT the following question, “Can you please look at the website www.crossingthethreshold.net and tell me what sort of person you think David Johnson is?" When I make use of AI, ChatGPT has been the platform that I go to. Why? Probably because as far as I am aware it was the first to appear for mainstream use, I started tinkering with it and over time have got used to its idiosyncrasies.
This morning’s rainbow. 🌈
This morning’s (partial) rainbow. 🌈
The unexpected rain last night - at least I saw no forecast for it - brought faint rainbows in the smattering of clouds that were in the sky this morning. 🌈
Well I might not have got my wet, stay inside Sunday, but the morning showers did produce a faint rainbow. 🌈
Thursday, September 25, 2025 →
With autumn now officially here, I asked @andycarolan@social.lol to create another seasonal owl for me. This will be the fourth version of the owl that Andy has created. Thank you to Andy for your work. As ever it has been a pleasure working with you.
Here are the four owls that Andy has created for me, with the most recent in the top left. I’ve now placed this new avatar across my online presence.
If you are curious as to ”why the owls”, I have explained that here.
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 →
This morning’s double rainbow 🌈
Yesterday evening we had a rain shower. The skies darkened quickly, the rain fell and with that, as the sun set on the other side of the island, a rainbow formed. 🌈
The rainbow started off as just a part rainbow sitting in a cloud,
and then it formed a complete ark across the sky.
With the return of the rains, it looks as though the rainbows are returning. I saw a couple of partial rainbows nestled in clouds while out driving yesterday. Then this rainbow greeted me this morning. 🌈
I think, I hope that the rains are slowly returning to Maui. More clouds. More short showers. We have had a couple of sprinkling showers already today. Next I would like to order a heavy downpour and then an overcast day peppered with plenty of rain.
At the end of last week one brief evening shower produced a very faint rainbow. You might have to look hard to see it, but it is there. I’ll claim it to add to the collection of rainbows on this blog. 🌈
This morning’s rainbow…and “yes,” that is a slip and slide going down that hill. 🌈
This morning’s rainbow. There was a double rainbow, but the second one disappeared before I found my camera. 🌈
The rainbows seem to be making a slow return. This morning one started to appear but then thought better of it. Yesterday morning we were blessed with this rainbow 🌈
