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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First day of autumn
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Happy holidays!
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Tower Bridge, London, England
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Lobster tales
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Lionfish off the coast of Indonesia
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Star Wars Day
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Kjell Henriksen Observatory
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A storied trail marks a century
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Farmers Day
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Martimoaapa Mire Reserve, Finland
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A Carpathian Christmas celebration
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International Tiger Day
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Memorial Day
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Happy Thanksgiving!
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New Year’s Day in the land of the rising sun
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Autumn’s swan song
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The Vestibule at Diocletian s Palace, Split, Croatia
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Let s get lost
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World Water Day
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European fallow deer in England
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Okefenokee Swamp
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Ingenuity in action on the Santa Monica Pier
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World Teachers Day
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Make your list and check it twice
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Mount Rainier National Park
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National Mushroom Month
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Tintern Abbey, Wales
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National Love a Tree Day
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Black grouses lekking
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I m here! Take a look at me!
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