A little clarification.
That's a snow fence in the foreground, the shadowed riverbank just beyond, and the frozen river is that white space between the two. Beyond that, it's all tundra, flat tundra, without trees or any other sort of obstruction, which makes that sliver of laser-bright luminescence all the more noticeable...and strange.
In all the years that I've lived in the Arctic, I've never seen anything like this. There have been plenty of clear nights in which the moon illuminated the entire snow-covered expanse creating an ocean-like reflection as far as the eye could see.
This night was different.
It's as if a spotlight was trained on one, specific, amazingly limited area.
Very pretty. But kind of eerie.
Sort of Twilight Zone-ish...without the pesky aliens.
At least, as far as I know.
4 comments:
Very pretty. And I agree, eerie. So the river is already frozen over. First year off the slope for me in a very long time. Scenes like this make me incredibly homesick. Enjoy all this. I know you do.
Very cool...never seen anything like that. Almost make you want to walk out there and stand in the middle of that spotlight from heaven.
Novice...
Yes, people are already ice fishing. I can imagine that you do miss it. I certainly would!
Jackie...
I would have liked to have snow machined out there and see just how much ground was illuminated. :)
Earth's position relative to [eight] seasonal cusps:
http://www.archaeoastronomy.com/myclock.html
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