Heading over to Radnor Lake State Park yesterday for a long hike, I noticed that there was some weather rumbling on the horizon.

So I packed my new point & shoot camera in a Ziploc bag and tucked it into my waistpack, just in case things took a turn.

Sure enough, when I got to the park, the wind was kicking up, and it was starting to sprinkle. Fair enough, I thought. Getting wet during these oppressively hot conditions wouldn't be the worst thing to happen.

As I made for the trail, the rain started coming in front of me, but it was otherwise sunny behind me.

Ideal conditions for a rainbow.

So I made tracks for the spillway, and sure enough...

The rest of the trip was just fantastic. The weather kept a lot of people off the trails, so I spotted a few heron, some young deer foraging, a pair of otter jostling with each other over a bluegill, a pileated woodpecker stripping the bark off of a fallen log, and a couple of prothonotary warblers.

I'm going to make it a point to get to the park on such days.