Sundogs ~~

I never saw one till I came here to West Virginia. I don't see them often here. The first I saw, I thought almost that I was hallucinating: it was a summer day, towards evening, I was driving home from the store. And happened to look up, just a bit higher than the road, and there it was: a glorious patch of rainbow, perfectly round, and huge, in the Western sky. Behind it, a thin curtain of mares tails looking clouds.

When I asked, I was told that that patch was called a sundog. And not uncommon here. What they seem to require is high thin clouds to provide ice crystals to make the patch of rainbow.

Just another pleasure of living here.