Because as we drove slow with the windows down, hearing our tires press sand and rain water into the blacktop, the sweet smell of creosote floated in on the breeze, and my mom commented that the air around us was sort of sparkling. And it was. Like dust-moats lit up by a shaft of light in a dark room. Like glittering gold. And then, we noticed that the sky beyond the mountains to our right was green, then blue, and deep purple behind us… and then pink, rose to our left, orange, and bright goldy-yellow up ahead. Surrounded by that color-wheel of sky, it seemed to occur to us both at once that maybe we were inside the rainbow, but it encompassed the whole valley, and not just us.