An Interesting Discovery.

I did what I’m told you’re not supposed to do today – hosed the garden when the sun was still quite high. It was around four o’clock in the afternoon. I was glad I did, because I discovered something rather splendid.

I found that if I had the nozzle set just right for a certain density of spray, and if I turned the hose in the opposite direction to the sun, and if I held the stream of water at just the right elevation, I got my very own little rainbow. Better still, I could view the garden through a mist of water droplets and spectral colours.

Now, I’m quite sure I’m not the first gardener to discover this, but it just might lead to a new short story one of these days.