August 13, 2009

Lunar rainbows

Who knew that Yosemite was a hotspot for lunar rainbows also known as moonbows

 Lunar-Rainbow Yosemite

Here's what the pioneering naturalist John Muir wrote about seeing such a sight in his 1912 book, The Yosemite.

“This grand arc of color, glowing in mild, shapely beauty in so weird and huge a chamber of night shadows, and amid the rush and roar and tumultuous dashing of this thunder-voiced fall, is one of the most impressive and most cheering of all the blessed mountain evangels.”

Thanks to Environmental Graffiti who has much more on The Elusive Beauty of Lunar Rainbows.

Posted by Jill Fallon at August 13, 2009 4:36 PM | Permalink
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