Swimming with Rainbow Sparkle

My exercise partner and I have been swimming laps for eight months now at the nearby Plano Aquatic Center. The pool opens at seven p.m. for lane swimming, and our swims this week have been magical. When I arrived this evening I was the only swimmer, so the water was very still. The huge windows on the west side of the building were all open, and the late sun was hitting the water just right to make dancing rainbow helix patterns on the bottom of the pool.

Twenty minutes later the sky had turned golden. The edges of the metal bleachers were reflecting the glow. The picture had changed to a perfect complementary color scheme of many blues and orange stripes.

By the time I climbed out of the pool, the sun was setting behind the high school practice field on the hill, and the sky was rosy. The pool surface was rippled with pink and turquoise sparkles.

It would be fun to make a time lapse photography movie inside the Aquatic Center. Now I am curious how the water looks when the sunrise peeks in through the large east windows. What might it look like when everyone is gone and the moon is full?