April 1, 2000

Trinity Site is was where the first atomic bomb was detonated. The site is open to the public on April 1, and October 1, each year. This year several friends and I drove to the site with a back pack water sprayer. I was going to attempt to create a small scale rainbow as a symbolic cleansing of the worlds nuclear past.

We entered the site at 8:00 a.m. only to find the weather rainy and overcast. I checked the sprayer in the parking lot and found there was too much wind to create a rainbow. We waited. It started to snow. Around noon, the sky cleared. I entered the site and created a small rainbow using a prism on the obelisk marking the site of detonation. Jane Darland photographed the rainbow and its making.

I then went back to the van to try the sprayer once again. It was still to windy for it to work. As I was placing the sprayer back in the van a DOD military Policemen came up to me and said. "You are the Rainbow Man and we have been waiting for you. If you attempt to enter the site with that device I will have to escort you from the facility."  We asked him if he would escort us through the southern gate which would save an hours drive. He agreed.  Everyone enters through the northern gate. We got to drive escorted through the entire missile range.

After exiting the range and getting on the highway we looked back to see a natural rainbow in the sky.  The cleansing was complete. Next I will go to Hiroshima and Nagasaki to create memorial rainbows commemorating the devastation of the WW II bombing of these cities.