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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International Jazz Day
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Canada Day
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National Merry-Go-Round Day
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Cloudy with a chance of enlightenment
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Life goes on at the Beatles Ashram
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Mona Vale Rockpool, Sydney, Australia
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International Day for Biodiversity
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Old man s whiskers growing wild
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Kochia, Hitachi, Ibaraki prefecture, Japan
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International Museum Day
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Happy Easter!
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World Rainforest Day
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Behold the perfect cone
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International Museum Day
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Quebec City for Winter Carnival
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Happy birthday, Saguaro National Park
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World Honey Bee Day
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Who created the Easter Bunny?
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Over and under the delta
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Manarola, Cinque Terre National Park, Liguria, Italy
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Antarctica Day
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Bridges to the past
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Tassili n’Ajjer, Sahara, Algeria
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Ringing in the new year at Teotihuacan
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Golden Bridge, Bà Nà Hills, Da Nang, Vietnam
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National Hummingbird Day
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