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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Winter at Valley Forge
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International Literacy Day
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Dance of the egret
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American bison, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
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Four Sisters, thousands of trees
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An endless journey
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A river runs through it
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Monarch butterflies in Angangueo, Mexico
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A tree amid the Tetons
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Celebrating Flag Day
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Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia
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Climb a tree for wild animals and plants
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Traveling warblers
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We did not invent this, honest
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It s time to fall back
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Notre-Dame Cathedral reopens
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Where the glow of the holidays lingers
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An island for the birds
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GOAL!
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Best fronds forever
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Shakespeare Day
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In the Garden of Europe
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Bavljenac Island
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In praise of bogs, swamps, and marshes
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Ölüdeniz, Turkey
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Travel Sunday: Liverpool
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Mercury in retrograde
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Hues of Hokkaido
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Great Salt Lake Shorelands Preserve in Layton, Utah
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