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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A light on National Hispanic Heritage Month
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April Fools Day
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A Flag Day tradition
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Maybe we should be looking up
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Remembering the Arizona
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World Art Day
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Apple trees in spring, Germany
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Oud-West, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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World Space Week
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Native American Heritage Day
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International Day of Forests
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National Bison Day
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Explorer of the sea
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It’s Opening Day for Major League Baseball
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Edinburgh Art Festival
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Keyholes to the kingdom
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Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, Washington
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Love on ice
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Winter in Old Nuuk
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Ingenuity in action on the Santa Monica Pier
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Basilica of Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, Italy
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Impala in Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana
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Caribbean flamingos, Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico
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Dreaming of the Tyrrhenian Sea
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Clouds over the River of Grass
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Waitangi Day in New Zealand
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A bohemian feline
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World Parrot Day
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Happy Pi Day!
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Nighttime view over the Gulf Coast
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