It used to be a rare occasion for me to be up at sunrise or before, unless I was paged out for a fire call or I was getting an early start on a trip. These days, specially during spring and fall times when daylight savings time meshes well with my departure time from work, though, I can be coming out the door at work or on the highway headed home when the sun rises behind me, and sometimes it can be quite beautiful as it was one day last week. Unfortunately I didnt have my camera with me, so I used my phone that has a pretty good camera inside it. As I crossed the Meramac River at Fenton, I looked left and noticed pink fluffy edges around the clouds and thought to myself that this might be a nice sunrise coming on…funny thing is, it was raining to the west and not too far away either, as I had checked the radar before leaving work a few minutes earlier. I didnt get a mile down the road, when I looked in my rearview mirror and was pleasantly surprised to see that the sunrise was now absolutely gorgeous…I crossed over three lanes of traffic to the shoulder by Maritz and walked to the back of my truck to snap a few photos with the phone camera….

I then drove on west and about a mile later, again I looked in the rearview mirror and liked what I saw, so again I pulled to the shoulder just past the entrance ramp from Hwy 141 and walked to the back of the truck to shoot a few photos…only this time it started raining, so I snapped just a few photos this time…

…this one above just as it started to rain and the next one as its starting to come down harder….

…and believe me, I no sooner got back into my truck and headed west until it came down in gullywasher fashion…as I drove up Antire Hill, it was still pretty behind me but there was no more getting out to shoot photos by this time…however on the way up the hill, I noticed a split rainbow…now I really wished I had my camera with me because I could have captured it as a split, but my camera phone didn’t pan out wide enough to capture it. Here is the north end, sorry for the fuzziness……

…and the south end near Eureka….