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Late afternoon light on my favourite lone tree near Old Rayne. I stood in a blizzard waiting for the sun to come through behind it, and for about 20 seconds there was a beautiful ice-bow (sun dog) in the clearing clouds.
A sun dog or sundog (scientific name parhelion, plural parhelia, for "beside the sun") is a common bright circular spot on a solar halo. It is an atmospheric optical phenomenon primarily associated with the reflection or refraction of sunlight by small ice crystals making up cirrus or cirrostratus clouds. (Wikipedia)
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