Posted on December 31, 2017 Posted by John Scalzi 9 Comments
The last sunset of 2017, accessorized with a light pillar (made from sunlight reflecting off ice crystals in the air). Not a bad way to see out the year.
Catch you on the other side, folks.
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It’s called a Sun Dog. Just in case you were wondering.
It’s very prevalent in the Nordic countries (see “You’re Still Here” by Poets of the Fall).
That’s a beautiful photo — here’s to a much better 2018!
Sabre Runner:
Nah, these are sun dogs:
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7367/16188735670_a677356c08_z.jpg
Sun dogs are out to the side, pillars go straight up.
That’s the ramp for Daisy to the Big Doggie Park…
Que maravilha de céu
The Daisy thread is up to a couple hundred comments, so I’ll put this here: sorry to hear she died. It’s hard to lose a good dog.
A “supermoon” today, the full moon was at perigee around 5 PM EST today, so it was slightly larger and brighter.
That is a lovely photo, but I’m not gonna lie, my first thought was that it looks like the sun was giving 2017 a giant middle finger as it set