Gandalf greeted me
with a smile
& a rainbow
but “look” he said
& as I turned further left,
I saw another one
“wait” he said “there’s more”
and sure enough
as I turned right,
I saw another one
…and another
and then
I swear
the rainbow brought a bird!
My sun was surrounded by two rainbows:
One
and both in a panoramic view.
What a treat, from my friend Gandalf !
On this day
March 29, 1943
Greek musician and composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, and orchestral music
Vangelis
was born
we listen to
Antarctic Echoes
from his album
Antarctica
&
Islands of the Orient
from his album
Oceanic
Happy Monday!
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Stay Safe!
Categories: Birthdays, Nature, Photography, sun
Marina Kanavaki 
Marina, thank you for your recent decision to follow Learning from Dogs. I will be honest in thinking that you had already been following my blog but I am delighted that you now are!
I was actually [and have been for a long while!] following you, but I accidentally hit unfollow instead of share [which is right above it!] and I can tell you it took some time for WP to be convinced that I want to follow you [back], as I kept seeing a funny message! A glitch I found with many other friends I follow. Happy to be back! 😉
Gandalf really is a wizard!
He gave you magic rainbows, and you are magic for sharing them with all of us!
Listening to the 2nd Vangelis music. He’s very popular in Canada!
Okay…love and hugs all around!
Ohhh, it’s almost Friday! HAPPY WEEKEND!!!!
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Oh, yes he is a wizard I’m very
happy to greet every morning!
Soooo happy you enjoyed images & music!
Yep, almost weekend!!!!!
…and we anticipate a sunny one after some almost snow cold days! Weather has been acting up!
Oh, hey… Happy April!!!! Be alert! 😉
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Wow, what a treat indeed, Marina! Gorgeous, dear friend, and Happy Wednesday! 😉 xoxoxo
Thank you, my dearest Lauren. It was a beautiful treat and I learned something new too! 😉 Happy Wednesday to you!! xoxoxoxoxoxo
Oh, nice one, Marina!
Rather than rainbows, you were treated to a lovely display of solar halos (created by refraction through ice crystals in high cirrus clouds). The bright ones on either side and level with the sun are parhelia, or sundogs. You have also captured a 22 degree halo and an upper tangent arc! By the way, rainbows are always in the opposite side of the sky from the sun.
Years ago I was lucky enough to see a similar display but with a bonus circumzenithal arc (which looks like an upside down ‘rainbow’ 🌈!)
Isn’t nature amazing?
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Yes, my friend, and I didn’t know till Tim explained the sundogs to me earlier in his comment and now you. But there couldn’t be a better explanation than your amazing Carneddau Halos post! 🙏🐉🙏🌟☀️💫☀️🙏
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I should have known that Timothy would know what this was called… I was about to write this and decided to read the comments!
How lucky are you to have captured this!!
I love Vangelis!
I didn’t know about this so I was so happy to read about it by Tim and now by you too! ❤❤❤❤
Glad you enjoyed Vangelis too! 🤗😘😘
You are truly lucky to have captured this phenomena! And it’s funny. The photo group I am part of on Facebook, the cover image is one of these…
And yes, I love Vangelis! xoxo
Coincidences!!!! If you follow Graham’s link in his comment below you will see a trully remarkable halo he captured and explained beautifully!!!!
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Wonderful! Funny how that works… 💞
Isn’t it?!!!
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Absolutely!!
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Every time I stop by there is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbows. Happy Spring!!!
Awww.. what a beautiful thing to say, my dearest Rebecca! I learned something new today: apparently this phenomena is called Sun Dogs, as Tim was so kind to write and add a wiki link in his comment!
Happy Spring! 🤗
What a pleasant surprise to find in the morning sky. I don’t believe I’ve ever seen one rainbow at that hour, let alone two. Cheers to your find, and have a good rest of the week. Yamas!
PS: I enjoyed the music!
Happy to hear that!!!!
Clink!
Thank you, my friend! Thankfully, Tim told me what it is (read his comment and wiki info) Sun Dogs is the name of the phenomena.
Yamas!!!!!
Those are beautiful Sun Devils. Good thing Gandalf alerted you.
Is it what they’re called?! They were so faint, I could have easily missed them! Gandalf did a good job! 😉
You can read about Sun Dogs and there other names at Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_dog
I had no idea! Thanks so much for the link. How interesting!!!! If I’d known I’d have used a different title! 😉
Next time you will have lots of titles to choose from.
Seeing something like that twice… oh, I definitely will have lots of titles to choose from!! 😉