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
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World Lizard Day
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Kluane National Park
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Happy Halloween!
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International Literacy Day
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Christmas Eve
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Beech trees and wild anemones, Jutland, Denmark
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Saffron in bloom
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Canada s $20 view
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Ross Errilly Friary, County Galway, Ireland
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Gone ‘lightseeing’ in Berlin
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Heron lies the Salton Sea
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Poinsettia Day
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Madame Sherri Forest, New Hampshire
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Arrone in Umbria, Italy
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Did it see its shadow?
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You won’t see this on Mulberry Street
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Groundhog Day
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Albion Falls, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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World Heritage Day
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Summer solstice
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The Cutty Sark turns 150
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Irohazaka Road in fall, Nikko, Tochigi, Japan
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Happy Boxing Day!
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It s Computer Science Education Week
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A winter wonderland in Northeast China
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Bridge of Hillsborough County
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Saint Nicholas Day in Verbier, Switzerland
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The lemurs of Madagascar
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Wildflower bloom, Central Valley, California
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On the rebirth of the Olympic Games
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