Colored Snow Sparkles
Scanning the back yard shortly after sunrise, my eye caught some of snow glistening with colored sparkles.
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I learned snow sparkles are an optical phenomenon that occur when sunlight reflects and refracts through hexagonal ice crystals at the right angle of light, more profound in fresh dry snow. With the perfect angle, the sparkles will reflect different colors of the rainbow. This is the same effect that gives us sky rainbows and sun dogs.
Have you ever noticed colored snow sparkles before? I know it bedazzled me!
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Bay Photos by Donna 