A most spectacular event

Cool stuff Wolf,

We would go out at night up at Little Glass Valley Reservoir at about 5,000'
and lay on our backs and watch the stars............very special.

Once I was at Christmas Island on a full moon with my brother. We sat
outside our little cottage drinking a beer and watching the moon. It was
real hard to stop and go to bed.

--
Bill Kiene

Kiene's Fly Shop
Sacramento, CA, USA
www.kiene.com

"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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Standing out on the front stoop just now, I looked up at the full moon. I
was facing nearly due east. High thin clouds looked very much like the
ripples in the sand in the shallows of a lake. Something, presumably ice
crystals, between the observer on the ground and the clouds was refracting
the sunlight reflected off the moon. There was a bright white nimbus
surrounding the moon and extending about two apparent diameters of the
moon
all around it. Outside this glowing patch was a ring of barely
perceptible
red.....as near infrared as my eyes could detect. Outside that followed
all
the colors of the spectrum; sort of a rainbow in the round. Outside that
was another complete rainbow and, outside that, a third. Barely visible
in
the white patch were much smaller ripples than those formed by the high
clouds, traveling west to east.

It looked a lot prettier than it probably sounds.

There's a lot of really cool **** in this world......better than T.V. for
the most part.

Wolfgang