Come to Yosemite in February and you may be shoulder-to-shoulder with photographers hoping to get a shot of Horsetail Fall in the evening. When conditions are right, rays of the setting sun align with the falling water to set the cascade ablaze with light—a natural display called the ‘firefall.’ And in a bit of added mystique, Horsetail Fall itself is an ephemeral waterfall—it flows only for a short time in the winter and early spring.
A winter light show
Today in History
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Notre-Dame Cathedral reopens
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Friendship Day in the City of Brotherly Love
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Gifford Pinchot National Forest
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Sanxiantai Dragon Bridge in Taitung, Taiwan
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Celebrate International Women’s Day
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Chocolate Hills
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Welcome to ‘Hollywood North’
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New Zealand s loneliest mountain
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Castle Stalker, Argyll, Scotland
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Autumn in the Prosecco Hills
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Drop in on International Surfing Day
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International Tiger Day
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Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah
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Polar bears
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Paleontology meets art
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Honoring the first American woman in space
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The eloquence of elephants
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Ancient town of Sorano, Tuscany, Italy
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Bear watching in the Finnish forest
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Blue hour in Trondheim, Norway
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Great horned owl fledglings
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A lofty lighthouse and a little ocean spray
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Go with the rainbow flow
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Hanging out on a limb
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To Sua Ocean Trench
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A throng of ice and spires
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Great horned owl near Lake Tohopekaliga, Florida