Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Bird's Eye Speedwell



The first wildflower of the season. These flowers are so tiny.

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Sun dog


I saw this sundog this afternoon. A sundog is a reflection of the sun in the ice crystals in the clouds. If you look carefully, there is a complete ring around the sun, but often there are only a few places in the ring that reflects the light due to the thickness of the ice crystals. In this case, there was another sundog on the other side of the sun but it wasn't nearly as dramatic.
Ooops, my ancient photo program - Micrografix Picture Publisher - can't save 12.5 megabyte JPEG files. I have to reduce them to something it can handle. I haven't figured out what the max it can handle is. Time for more experimentation.