My Iridescent Obsession

The skies have been beautiful. Big billowy clouds with shiny edges and silver linings. Light bouncing off of airy white contours and darker gray shadows. I've run outside a million times with the camera to look. Oh yes, it's beautiful alright, but it's not iridescent. I started to worry. Is the season over? Has my luck run out? Will I only see the kind of clouds that would have thrilled me a year or so ago, but not see the optical wonder of water droplets and sunlight painting the sky again? I went out Sunday afternoon just for a peek. I had seen a few rainbowy halos earlier in the day and thought I'd check one more time. This is what I found. It lasted all of five minutes.

Five minutes! I shouted "thank you" to the sky, and no I was not talking to a deity. I was talking to the clouds!