A full 22-degree circular halo spotted today, caused by sunlight refracting through ice crystals in the thin cloud layer. (It was around 65F at ground level.)
These halos are about the same width as a 1x photo on my phone (and most point-and-shoot cameras I’ve had), so I used the wide angle mode to catch the whole thing and then crop it down. I bumped up the saturation a little, but otherwise it’s unprocessed.
Spotted at a park last week.
Amusingly, my phone autocorrected “crewmate” to “cremate” while I was adding the alt text. Considering this is Among Us, it’s not that far off…
Some of the signs are still up, almost three years later.
Some people still wear masks, sometimes.
And some people still get covid, sometimes.
And memory of the 2020-2021 lockdown continues to fade.
~95% of lizards I’ve spotted since joining iNaturalist have been Western Fence Lizards. (Occasionally they’ve even been on fences.)
Once I found one that was identified as a Great Basin Fence Lizard!
When I looked it up, it turned out to be a subspecies of Western Fence Lizards.
(oh, right…bird flu)
