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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Where do those colors come from?
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Shakespeare Day
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Craters of the Moon centennial
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Storks ready for takeoff
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Under Parisian skies
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Celebrating freedom
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Notre-Dame Cathedral reopens
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Welcome to the drainpipe of the Pacific
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Marine Day in Japan
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Take the plunge into 2021
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Wildebeests in Maasai Mara, Kenya
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A dreamy start to the Year of the Pig
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Ronda, Spain
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Snow buntings take flight
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Atlanta Botanical Garden
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Red squirrel in Cairngorms National Park, Scotland
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Rainbow Mountain
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Bridge of Hillsborough County
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The Spirit of Harlem by Louis Delsarte
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Carl Sagan Day
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The Giants Causeway, Northern Ireland
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Mountain hare hopping into Lunar New Year
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Park of the Monsters, Bomarzo, Italy
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Frankenstein Friday
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Waiting for the perfect shot
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Field of Light at Sensorio by Bruce Munro
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Does it swim in slow motion too?
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Islands of the Salish Sea
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Saksun, Faroe Islands, Denmark
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Sailing on thick ice
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