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So I'm walking to the lab this morning with the usual spring in my stride, song on my lips (as, I suppose, does everyone)- when I happen to look up and see this:
It's called the twenty-two degree halo and essentially looks like a rainbow - only that it's in the form of a huge circle around the sun. I'd known about them, but this was the first time I'd actually seen one. Quite stunning, I must say - the Tucson sky continues to surprise me.
Also surprisingly, no one around me had noticed it yet - and it was only once I started making a spectacle of myself by crouching under a lamppost trying to block out the sun and take a photo, that people began to wonder what the strange lad was up to.
I suppose my retinas (retinae?) have now been burnt to a crisp, but it really was quite a beautiful sight. And yes, I wonder where the pot of gold is, now.
(Here's a link, if you're interested)