8 totally awesome natural phenomena you probably didn’t know about
Fri, Aug 7, 2009
Post filled in: Feature Post, Great Pics
The Maelstrom
When you hear a name like maelstrom, you just know it’s about something wicked. Introduced in English by Edgar Allan Poe from the Nordic languages, from which it came from the Dutch word maelstrom (maalstroom in modern spelling), it literally means crushing current, which is quite a very good description.
digital representation of a maelstrom
A maelstom is basically a very big and powerful whirlpool, a free vortex; a free vortex with quite a downdraft. The original maelstrom was Moskstraumen, which is caused by a very powerful tidal current. Both Poe and Jules Verne depict it as a giant vortex that leads to the bottom of the ocean where it is in fact a crossroad of underwater currents. Well.. they were a bit off, but still, it’s quite a view to catch.
Fire Rainbow
The term ‘fire rainbow’ is really misleading; the correct term is circumhorizon arc. It’s basically an ice halo formed by ice crystals located very high, in the cirrus clouds. This huge flamboyant lovely display of colors is really not as rare as you might think, and how often it appears depends mostly on location, and especially latitude. For example, in the US it can be seen several times a summer in each year in the same place, but in Central or Northern Europe it’s very rare.
Of course, this rainbow is not formed the way ‘classic’ rainbows are formed. Light passes through the hexagonal ice crystals via a vertical side and leaves through the nearest horizontal bottom face. If there alignment is just right, it makes the whole cloud shine rainbow-colored.
Waterspouts
Waterspouts seem to be taken out of the Captain Planet series. You know, earth, wind, fire, all that? Well, here it’s all about wind and water actually, because a waterspout is in fact a really intense columnar vortex that takes place over a mass of water and links it to a cumuliform cloud.
Most of the time, they are weaker than land tornadoes, but some are extremely big and bring the water upward with immense speed and power.
They can actually be tornadic or non-tornadic. The non-tornadic ones are way more common and less dangerous with winds being slower than 70 mph (30 m/s). Tornadic waterspouts are similar at their core to a tornado, but they add huge masses of water to the show, making it a scenery hard to forget.
The even rarer ‘cousin’ of the waterspout is the snowspout (or icespout). They are basically a very rare form of waterspouts that form at the base of a snow squall. There have only been six (!) pictures taken of such an event, so there’s not really much we can give you here.
The Honduran Rain of Fish
Oh this one’s good. We’ve all probably heard about this in one form of another, but most just chalk it up to folklore. Well, this isn’t the case! The department of Yoro is host of one of the most bizarre and amazing phenomena to ever take place: the rain of fish, that takes place every year for more than a century now.
Each year, between the months of May and July a dark clouds appears in the sky, followed by a massive thunderstorm, it rains a lot, the whole nine yards. It all lasts 2-3 hours, at the end of which people go out on the street where they find hundreds of living fish on the ground; yeah, they eat them.
There aren’t any clear conclusions, but a theory that’s accepted sometimes is that the strong winds and waterspouts take the fish from 200 km away. However, a significant number of scientists claim they are not sea water fish, but fresh water fish that swim from a nearby river to an underwater current, and some fish stray from the current and appear on the ground. But here’s the good part: National Geographic sent a team to investigate this, and they found that the fish aren’t found in any surrounding bodies of water, and also they’re all blind, so they came up with their own theory: they live in underground rivers, because they are blind. Anyway, if you ever visit Honduras in the summer, this is something you really should see.
Moonbows
We’ve all (probably) seen rainbows, at day. But how many of us have seen rainbows at night? Yeah, this can actually happen, due to the light produced by the moon (thus moonbow, or lunar rainbow or white rainbow). Of course the light emitted by the moon is much much fainter than that of the sun, so as a result, so is the formed rainbow; most of the time, it’s even hard for the human eye to separate the colors there.
The biggest chance you have of ever seeing a moonbow is when the moon is full (or near to full), when it’s the brightest, but there are other conditions required. The sky has to be very dark (close to black), and, of course, there must bee rain falling opposite to the moon.
Penitentes
These sharp ice spikes can only be found at high altitudes. Ice (or snow) formations that take the form of blades or spikes varying from a few centimeters to 2 meters (or even more) have fascinated researchers since Darwin’s time, as he was the first to ever describe them.
He had to squeeze his way through such a field and was the first to notice they generally follow the direction of the sun? But how are they formed? The mechanism of their ‘birth’ is a bit complicated, and it relies on differential ablation. Basically, for penitentes to form, the dew point has to be below freezing. As a result, the snow will sublimate, which requires more energy than melting. The geometry of the surface provides a positive feedback mechanism for radiation, which is trapped by multiple reflections, creating hollows. These hollows, combined with wind that increases the dew point temperatures provide the right conditions for the sublimation to create the steep walls and peaks.
Supercells
Supercells are rotating updrafts within severe thunderstorms; they’re big, and bloody scary.
They can appear anywhere in the world given the right meteorological conditions, but most of the times they appear in the Great Plains of the US, last generally 2-3 hours and they sometimes split in 2, with the two resulting storms going in opposite directions.
The supercells usually produce huge amounts of hail, torrential rainfall, strong winds, and substantial downbursts and they are often carriers of giant hail. There are a whole lot of technical details left to be said, but I’m not gonna stress that here (maybe in a future post), find the anatomy of a supercell here. Scientists have given quite an interest in supercells, because, as you could have guessed from the pics, they’re really dangerous. Really.
Ice Circles
Ice Circles are pretty much what you’d expect from them.
However, they’re very rare, appearing only in slow moving waters from cold climates such as Northern Europe or America, but some have also been spotted in Britain, including a huge one bigger than 3 meters. There are two types of ice circles. Here’s the general necessary conditions for the first type to form.
No rain and temperatures below 0 Celsius for several days near a slow river bend. Thus, the water creates a force that is called ‘rotational shear’ and breaks a chunk of ice, twisting it around and grinding it to the surrounding ice, turning it into a perfect circle.
The second type is perhaps even more spectacular. Also called ice pans, these formations are basically surface slabs of ice that form in the middle of the river, and not on its side. They’re explained by sudden shifts of temperature. As the water cools off, it gives away heat that creates frazil ice (randomly oriented ice needles loose in the water). These ice particles can of course form an ice pan, and if the lake has enough frazil ice and the current is slow enough, the ice pan can reach the sizes that baffle people and even become a hanging dam.
Of course you have to understand there are some weird or amazing phenomena that have eluded us, so if you know of something good, we would be ever grateful.
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Andrei is no scientist, but from an early age, he has been fascinated by science; that's why he went to college, and signed up for Geophysics. Feeling that there's a huge gap between science and average people, he rallied TP, started ZME Science, and gave it a green twist too.
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August 7th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
I had not heard of even one of these, awesome post…
August 7th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
Sweet man thanks for typing this up! I love stuff like this- didn’t know about a couple like the “moonbow”
August 7th, 2009 at 6:26 pm
Moonbows sound cool, but the moon doesn’t emit any light. It reflects it from the sun.
August 7th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
They should do a discovery channel special about these things.
August 7th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
Wow, this was educational and really interesting.
Thanks!
August 7th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
The Moon doesn’t “emit” light. It reflects it.
August 7th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
I’ve seen a moonbow. Woo me. Wasn’t any of your cheating waterfall rubbish either. Although moonbow is a succinct, yet fundamentally wrong name, as the moon on no way replaces the rain. But hey, who cares, I’ve seen a moonbow!
August 7th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
dude, I live in Florida and a few years ago a waterspout actually came from the beach onto our campus! we had to do a tornado drill for it, and people were freaking out. We even caught it on film, and everyone watched it go through the football field the next day on the school news. it was wicked!
August 7th, 2009 at 8:19 pm
I am so annoyed that a website with “science” in the name is going to publish photo after photo, ALL of which are flagrantly photoshopped. None of these things exist, ’shopped.
August 7th, 2009 at 8:38 pm
And someone had to say shopped! These are natural occurring events (although rare) that are real. Get more info on the topics then make a comment. Mr. Smart!
August 7th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
Most intresting peice of geography I’ve heard in years.
August 7th, 2009 at 8:56 pm
shut up davey. just dont even go there. no ones impressed by your 1990 style trolling.
August 7th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
sorry, forgot to say: fantastic page! im keeping my eyes open for all of these, especially since most of them are in the US.
August 7th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
Davey’s comment made me laugh so hard. He probably didn’t even get his grade 10. I guess I would think everything is shopped too, if I was on an ankle monitor, and unable to travel and actually get to see phenomenons like the ones listed.
He probably listens to ICP too.
August 7th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
Don’t forget about the fun that is Ball Lightning.
August 7th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
Cool, Thanks for posting. I have seen all of these but the Maelstrom
August 7th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
Some of these pictures are pretty damn shopped though. I can’t believe the picture of the maelstrom is from Pirates of the Carribean, how fucking stupid.
August 7th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
Who’d want to photoshop a picture of a guy frying fish?
o_O
awesome site.
It’s full of class
;D
August 7th, 2009 at 11:10 pm
Not only do some people need to get out more (sans ankle bracelet), but also might want to use the REST of the web to verify that these are real phenomena before posting. Just a suggestion.
And maybe while you’re out there, brush up on actual photography techniques (that can be done with a camera) and are in that rarified category of “Art”. Like the first photo, it looks like a long exposure photo–used to capture the sense on motion or create a texture.
And second item is clearly labeled as a “digital representation,” not that lame when you’re trying to give several examples of a rare phenomenon.
(My husband is a graphic designer & checked photos. I trust a trained eye!)
August 8th, 2009 at 1:19 am
I live in a college town in Oklahoma, and Supercells form frequently around here, especially in April and May. You’re right, they are “bloody scary” and, it’s even more fun because the college students from far away see these looming on the horizon and think the world is going to end. Supercells are definitely spectacular though; pictures don’t do them justice. Great article by the way!
August 8th, 2009 at 1:40 am
I have experienced those super cell storms on many occasions and let me tell you they can be terrifying. I have also seen a sun dog a few times before (which is not listed here, but should be). I have seen the beauty of a fire rainbow once. It’s awe inspiring.
Curious about sun dogs? Here’s a link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_dog
It appears as if there are multiple suns and is a very strange thing to see.
August 8th, 2009 at 2:02 am
I have seen a few moon bows during the 15 years I lived in Maui HI. All I had to look for was a good rain storm on the north shore and a nice bright moon fairly high in the sky. I lived in Pukalani which is situated between the wet north shore and the dry south shore and turned out the be the perfect place to see this phenomena. The best moon bow I ever saw had faint silvery colors and I tried to photograph it but the digital camera that I had at the time sucked.
I have also seen lots of lenticular clouds forming over the west Maui Mts. so I have no doubt that these photos are real.
Interesting that we have reached a point at which we can’t tell what is physically real and what is graphically created to look real in our media sources. I am not sure if that is good or disturbing.
August 8th, 2009 at 2:09 am
i saw a moonbow last year!!! awesome site!
August 8th, 2009 at 2:43 am
Oh I forgot to comment on the first photo, which,I am sure is a real photo, but has nothing to do with a maelstrom. It is a simple blow hole which you can find on most coastlines.
It is usually a reef or rock shelf that the ocean has worn through (usually a soft spot in the coral or rock.)
A wave hits the reef or rock structure and pushes water into what looks like a geyser. Then the wave resides and the leftover water is sucked into the void looking somewhat like a maelstrom I suppose.
In this photo you can clearly see the reef and rocks that surround the water as it is being sucked back into the ocean.
August 8th, 2009 at 3:27 am
Dan: Ball lightning is crazy! Another of my personal favourites are mammatus clouds; http://www.dnr.ne.gov/floodplain/mitigation/mammatus3.jpg
eerie or what?
August 8th, 2009 at 5:23 am
Maelstrom in Dutch, and subsequently English, stems from the Nordic (or rather, Danish) word - Malstrøm.
Otherwise nice article, personally fascinated by the moonbows and fire rainbows
August 8th, 2009 at 5:57 am
mother nature has never been any cooler.
August 8th, 2009 at 9:34 am
I’ve been lucky enough to see a moonbow here in the UK. For it to show up on camera i had to really slow down the shutter speed to capture as much light as possible
August 8th, 2009 at 9:58 am
Really cool. would love to see them
August 8th, 2009 at 10:21 am
i greet you for this beautiful post of yours….& i like to see more & even more parapsychological(or if i may call it NORMAL seen AS paranormal) posts from you, have a great LIFE in the nature my friend!
August 8th, 2009 at 11:17 am
I live in south central Kentucky and locally we have a falls (Cumberland Falls) that has a moonbow almost every night; People camp out to see it on full moons! There is even a HippieFest in the summer for it.
August 8th, 2009 at 11:35 am
Its not a moon bow, its a rainbow. Rainbows occur when a fine mist splits the suns light into the basic lights red, orange, yellow, green, blue, vilot, and indago. It has nothing to do with the moon
August 8th, 2009 at 11:39 am
These are all really cool! There is one that wasn’t mentioned though. We have a natural phenomenon on the Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay. It’s called a Jubilee. The fish float on top of the water for a time and you can just scoop them up. This is supposed to be the only place where this happens. It has something to do with the oxygen levels in the water between the Gulf and the rivers and the tides. It doesn’t happen all of the time.
August 8th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
i have seen a few of those, heard and read of some long before photoshop was invented… but there always will be some “clever” sceptics!
August 8th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
nice scene, i have never seen such an interesting photo before. is this a real one?
August 8th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
Radical! Thanks for sharing.
August 8th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
Very awesome post, I have seen them form on the Bow river in Calgary Alberta Canada
August 9th, 2009 at 3:12 am
Great stuff. Thank you!
August 9th, 2009 at 3:33 am
very cool, i like it
August 9th, 2009 at 8:18 am
I assume ball lightning isn’t on here due to lack of pictures?
August 9th, 2009 at 9:26 am
VERY cool. I do find it interesting that every one of these involves that mysterious compound we call - water.
August 9th, 2009 at 9:33 am
The ice circles were obviously made by ice aliens.
August 9th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Have seen moonbow in Hawaii, very beautiful.
August 9th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
In rural areas, ponds “turn over” in the fall…and sometimes in the spring. I don’t know all the technical information for it but you can find it on Google. I think the fish die during these events and the water tastes really bad.
August 9th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
Another one for your list is glories. Rainbows on he edges of objects. I saw them in winter in Scotland on the Cairngorm plateau. Multi level people shaped rainbows, radiating from the people standing in front of me. I have a photo somewhere!
August 9th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
Cool pictures, but the moon doesn’t produce light.
August 9th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
I live in the texas panhandle and super-cells are scary. especially when they carry west texas dust….the air gets filled with dirt and you can’t see 5 feet in front of you except red…the color of the dust.
August 9th, 2009 at 9:55 pm
Have you ever seen a snowbow? They happen during sunsnowers (which are sunshowers, only it’s snowing instead of raining). Also interesting is the thunder and lightning snowstorm. : )
August 10th, 2009 at 8:15 am
I still liked the one i just came from better http://mymathgenius.blogspot.com/ for anyone that may disagree.
August 10th, 2009 at 10:05 am
jamesmuntz@dodo.com.au email me!
August 10th, 2009 at 11:28 am
Very interesting article.I’d heard of all of these with the exception of the ice circles and moonbows (if only because I have fountain upon fountain of very useless knowledge stored away). But the only photos I see in here that could have been PS’d, Are one of the moonbows and a maelstrom, although that one is just a scene from Pirates 3…
Anyway… good job.
August 10th, 2009 at 11:29 am
these are great! actually some of them are pretty terrifying, nature is mean.
August 10th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
some look like little phoshoped or just changed colors I’m not sure.
August 10th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
lolwtfmate,
Perhaps you missed the words “digital representation of a maelstrom.”
August 10th, 2009 at 8:09 pm
freakin’ cool man!!!
August 10th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
Cool post!
August 10th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
Ustedes pueden chupar mi pinga, si quieren.
August 10th, 2009 at 11:43 pm
Really nice picture collection, can we be friend on SU? my id is chandansaud
August 11th, 2009 at 3:04 am
Just an awesome post. Not even heard about it. May be never will see it.
August 11th, 2009 at 1:04 pm
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
August 11th, 2009 at 11:27 pm
I’d add a 9th, snow rollers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_roller
August 12th, 2009 at 6:34 am
Whoa. Awesome. The penitentes totally look like they’re from a Superman movie, haha. And while the moonbows and fire rainbows (and the rain of fish!) are cool, I think I’d totally freak if I saw that supercell. o.O
August 12th, 2009 at 8:12 am
awesome….i was almost speechless having seen all those cute,beautiful pictures
i wanna thatks those people who take these snaps.
August 12th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
Some more things to look up:
Green flash (where a setting sun momentarily turns part green)
Noctilucent clouds (clouds that can be viewed after the sun has gone down and are typically over 250,000ft above the earth)
Nacreous clouds (or mother of pearl clouds)
Sprites (appear above storm clouds)
Mirages
There is certainly alot of strange natural phenomena about that are rarely glimpsed but seeing any one of them is a special treat.
August 13th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
Isn’t it sad that you can present the wonders of the universe to someone and their response is to shriek “Fake” or “Shopped” ?
Just because you don’t know about something doesn’t make it fake. You aren’t demonstrating an admirable scepticism merely a wilfully ignorant cynicism.
August 14th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
A wolf is always a wolf even disguised in a sheep. those natural scenes are actually disastrous but with a devine artistic design.
August 14th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
REALLY COOL … I amazed with waterspout … I didn’t know there is some phenomena like that! I shared this page in facebook. thanks man
August 15th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
Snow rollers are a pretty cool natural rare phenomena, although they’re about as exciting as watching paint dry…
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/otx/photo_gallery/snow_rollers.php
August 17th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
Love this photos of natural phenomena! Very dramatic photography …
August 17th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
I have been aware of most of these - I’ve always been interested in truly unique things. The two which are new to me are the ice circles, and the super cells.
I live in southern calif and we definitely have our share of wildfires. (In fact we have several right now - my area is currently in a smoke alert.) Once I saw the fire rainbow. I gasped - the one I saw had made it into the sky and could be seen from a distance - safety is important. But it is beautiful and amazing - while at the same time it is from a fire which is causing so much damage. I understand though that it is also caused partly by the water being used to stop the fire.
mj
August 18th, 2009 at 12:16 am
Awesome post. I liked that you had legit info in there as well as pictures.
Another rare and very interesting phenomenon are the Tufa Towers, I think only found at Mono Lake. The salinity of the lake paired with the CaCo2 in underwater springs forms these underwater sculpturized rock. They’re pretty cool and def. worth looking up.
August 18th, 2009 at 11:10 pm
My friend told me about this site
August 19th, 2009 at 2:52 am
Sweet bro, I love this kind of stuff.
Nature at it’s most beautiful (and weird). Great pictures and a good read to boot.
Thanks for sticking this together I enjoyed it.
August 21st, 2009 at 6:43 am
Man, those supercells look awesome! You never see anything like that in Utah.
August 22nd, 2009 at 1:25 am
Awesome post with lots of great photos in one spot! One thing- waterspouts don’t actually suck up water. The water in the funnel is created by condensation of water vapour when the warm air near the base of the funnel rises and cools.
But I really enjoyed the info!! A few I’d never heard of before. Thanks for taking the time to type it up.
August 23rd, 2009 at 4:42 pm
Sweet Pictures, The Only Ones I’m A Little Skeptical On Are The Fire Rainbows But None The Less They’re Beautiful
August 27th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
impresionant…. habar nu aveam ca pot exista asa fenomene. keep up the good work
August 28th, 2009 at 11:29 am
Those Penitentes and super cells look epic.
I remember seeing some ice circles when I was a kid. Fascinating things. ^^;
lets go for a walk.
August 28th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Perhaps you could credit or source these incredible images you’ve taken and used without permission.
August 29th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
Awesome post, I live in Minnesota and have seen quite a few super-cells, not something you want to mess with, considering there’s commonly tornadoes associated with them, not to mention the baseball sized hail.
August 31st, 2009 at 9:26 pm
i saw the circumhorizon arc it was awesome
August 31st, 2009 at 9:58 pm
These are good pictures, but none of the phenomena illustrated here are mysterious in any way. The fish, for example, are a species that have evolved to burrow into the ground when a riverbed dries up and can actually lie dormant for years underground. This process is known as estivation. When the rains come, they wake up and wiggle their way out and, normally, swim away. In some areas, the rains are becoming less frequent and the rivers are no longer flowing, except during flood years. This riverbed, or arroyo, obviously isn’t getting much water these days.
September 1st, 2009 at 5:52 am
Dude.. Wicked man!! I haven’t been fortunate enough to witness any.. It looks so spectacular.
September 8th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
There are so many smart people, but YOU stood forth and contributed.
Well done and keep up the good work Andrei!
Theodore RooseveltIt’s not the critic that counts, not the one that points out where the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the one who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends themselves in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if they fail at least fails while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be to reside in the grey twilight with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt, Sorbonne, 1910
September 8th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Sorry for not putting in the quotation marks! Here it is again,
” It’s not the critic that counts, not the one that points out where the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the one who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends themselves in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if they fail at least fails while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be to reside in the grey twilight with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
Theodore Roosevelt, Sorbonne, 1910
September 9th, 2009 at 1:40 am
Just pure amazing!
September 15th, 2009 at 7:37 am
So awesome! Really enjoyed this post- thanks for the great pictures too!
September 16th, 2009 at 9:43 am
I truly enjoyed reading, and of course viewing, these phenomenal natural activities. Thank you for your compilations. Caveat: I agree you should provide credit to your sources or at least obtain their permission.
A few others I have seen:
A rainbow inside a rainbow,
A rainbow side by side with another rainbow (at the same time),
An ‘ice bow’ around the moon (usually tree days prior to precipitation caused by a upper level {higher than the warm mass near the surface} cold front moving in),
A Tidal bore (high tide overcoming a river in the form of a somewhat large wave traveling upstream) (Bay of Fundy, Canada),
A reversing waterfall (Bay of Fundy, Canada), but my absolute favorite of all time (excluding the witness of childbirth) is Aurora Borealis, nicknamed the Northern Lights. No words, pictures, or even videos can EVER do it/them justice. Sooo.. Awe inspiring, the colors ‘dance’ and flow in and across the sky, magical! God’s version of Photoshop seeming put there for our appreciation.
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you,
p.s. open your mind to new things. You will never know if you don’t like a new food if you don’t try it.
Accepting failure as any option is to fail before even trying.
September 24th, 2009 at 1:18 am
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September 24th, 2009 at 1:27 am
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September 27th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Wow, Ice Circles sort of remind me of lillipads or however you spell it. I’ve never heard of the Maelstrom before though, amazing post.
November 7th, 2009 at 9:38 am
Fantastic.
February 28th, 2010 at 5:39 am
excellent post thank you for sharing