Odd but Beautiful Weather

Day started out just fine, a pleasant midwinter day with highs in the 40s.  The last vestiges of our mammoth 38" snowfall still lay scattered about our backyard, but melting quickly.

This shot I took on Wednesday morning.  That's our water garden across the foreground, still half buried under the leaf screens:

Then around 5:30 pm we experienced some odd but beautiful weather, as a strong front surged through.  On the one hand, we saw thunderstorms with lightning in the southern sky, while a double rainbow simultaneously hung to the northeast: