Glass Caribou

The weather was fabulous today.  Sunny and very still.  Caribou lake has been glassy for hours and hours.

Sunset

The Dragontree

Very faint aurora with a meteor streak and some orange light pollution
and tons of stars reflected in the lake

Four sunset rainbows

A thunder storm rolled in around sunset and produced a few rainbows.  Four to be exact.  The primary rainbow is easy to see; the secondary takes some squinting.  Each rainbow is "reflected" in the water.  However a rainbow is not an object and cannot be reflected.  The reflected rainbows are generated by light that has passed through different rain drops and has traveled a different path to your eyes.  Rather than the direct path to eyes like the sky bow, the light for the lake bows travels from the raindrops to the lake surface, then to your eyes.

The flare in intensity at the bottom of the bow was due to the sun peaking between the clouds, shown below

Feathered sunset

The sky was filled with Cirrus fibratus clouds on the way to pick up the kids this evening.

Sunrise and Sunset

Sunrise with halo in Hermantown

 Colorful sunset over Pike Lake

Evening colors

The presence of Lake Superior provides us with interesting clouds on occasion. Stratocumulus undulatus coupled with a colorful sunset, it was quite a show for about 10 minutes.