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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World Jellyfish Day
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Spotted Lake emerges
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Let’s celebrate
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Hanging out on a limb
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A reflection of Europe s past
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World Nature Conservation Day
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Happy holidays!
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Ringing in the new year at Teotihuacan
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Noctilucent clouds
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Summer huts in winter
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Thorrablot: The Icelandic midwinter festival
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A water loch-ed castle
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Dark Sky Week
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Penguin Awareness Day
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Christmas market at Belvedere Palace in Vienna
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It s Mountain Day in Japan
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Boxing Day—a shopper’s delight
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Guilin and Lijiang River National Park, China
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St. Patrick s Day
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Under Parisian skies
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Gulf Islands National Seashore, Florida
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Glenfinnan Viaduct
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Burrowing owls
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Red fox
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National Hispanic Heritage Month
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Arbor Day
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World Water Day
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Martinique
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A ‘Superior’ paddle
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Once upon a midafternoon dreary…
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