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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Siblings Day
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Bridge of Hillsborough County
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When science looks like magic
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Bringing together history and technology
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Welcome to the Hoh
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A valley view at 9,000 feet
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Night of the ‘Cold Moon’
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High trekking season in Upper Mustang
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Dreaming of the Tyrrhenian Sea
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In the Red Sea for World Dolphin Day
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Christmas market at Belvedere Palace in Vienna
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J.R.R. Tolkien Day
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Burns Night in Scotland
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Kluane National Park
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World Chocolate Day
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Young black caiman, Tambopata National Reserve, Peru
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Happy Fathers Day!
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Womens History Month
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Halo around the sun
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Spiegelgracht canal in Amsterdam, Netherlands
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A wassailing we go
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American bison, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
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Celebrating National Dentist Day
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Manatee Appreciation Day
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Skyscraper Day
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It s a ruff life
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Tulips, Netherlands
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International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend
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American robin
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The ‘Living Forest’ in Biscay, Spain
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