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| Jack Fids (Jack_fids)
Registered Member Username: Jack_fids Post Number: 553 Registered: 1-2009 Posted From: 72.211.128.245  Rating: N/A |
This morning about 6-AM Fooey broke camp in Las Cruces NM as he heads West to Tucson. Of all the items on his schedule for this trip, this morning may have been the most important & memorable. This is my little secret & gift to those who haven't been out this way. and as you have discovered , I have other less obvious secrets posted here...! IF you are on the Interstate headed WEST before Sunrise and between Las Cruces & Demming .... and you keep your eyes on the horizon... you will see the line of Mtns. stretching from right to left ahead of you... [ ^^^^^^^^^] just a very few minutes after the Sun rises behind you EVERY Mountain in front of you will suddenly turn from a standard "Pyramid" into hour-glasses....! ... The reflection of them in the rising heat turns them upside down on top of themselves..! [ ^^^^^ into XXXXXX ] This illusion only lasts for a minute or so, but it takes your breath away when you see it... especially IF you don't know about it & catch it w/o knowing that it is a Mirage it can cause you to wonder if your eyes or mind have just failed you. So if you want a memorable ride into AZ on I-10, do like Fooey did... leave an hour before sunrise & keep your eyes peeled for the"event on the Horizon" ...it's a thrill not unlike that of the Northern Lights.....it gives you the same tingle down your Spine. When he called me at 7AM he said it was fantastically beautiful...surely a most memorable & unique experience!  (got a similar story? tell us about it...!) (Message edited by Jack_fids on February 25, 2011) | ||
| Dave Walker (Chrome_dome)
Registered Member Username: Chrome_dome Post Number: 227 Registered: 3-2010 Posted From: 75.210.57.255  Rating: N/A |
When I woke-up this morning my Cat was in the window and we were both watching the wind blowing through the 47 oak trees at the creek in our back yard and then she turn to me almost as if she was saying isn;t that beautiful and then she had a big HAIRBALL. As the Sun rose in the sky. Chromie | ||
| Jack Fids (Jack_fids)
Registered Member Username: Jack_fids Post Number: 555 Registered: 1-2009 Posted From: 72.211.128.245 Rating: N/A |
Some guys have all of the luck.... and I expect yours to change shortly  | ||
| Len Silva (Lsilva)
Registered Member Username: Lsilva Post Number: 447 Registered: 12-2000 Posted From: 72.187.35.208  Rating: N/A |
I haven't had those kinds of hallucinations since the sixties. | ||
| Dal Farnworth (Dallas)
Registered Member Username: Dallas Post Number: 393 Registered: 7-2004 Posted From: 67.141.71.22  Rating: |
That view is one of the ones I always liked when driving truck. Another that I showed my (then) girlfriend was the view from the TA truckstop west of SLC. I parked facing the hill in the evening, and we watched the sun lower on the hill like a curtain falling. The next morning I turned the truck around and then made her get out of the sleeper about a half hour before dawn. As she drank hot coffee, the snow glistening behind us, the sun came up out over the Great Salt Lake, with the mountains and islands out in the distance glowing in the light of the rising sun and the shimmering heat waves turning them upside down. Her mouth was "Slack and A-gape" at that sight. The girlfriend is now my wife, and we both still wonder at the gifts that God gives us every day. | ||
| ED Hackenbruch (Shadowman)
Registered Member Username: Shadowman Post Number: 357 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 75.211.13.246 Rating: N/A |
Every now and then when the conditions are just right, there will be a green flash as the last little piece of the sun sets into the ocean in Hawaii. I have seen it 4-5 times while we lived there. Also have seen a moonbow which is just like a rainbow but with very faint or no colors at all, at night 3-4 times while we lived there. | ||
| Dave Walker (Chrome_dome)
Registered Member Username: Chrome_dome Post Number: 228 Registered: 3-2010 Posted From: 75.208.168.41 Rating: N/A |
Wow, now I am starting to worry about you guys,LOL I'm with Len on this one!!! Jack I expect it will to? Chromie (Message edited by chrome_dome on February 25, 2011) | ||
| Jim Wilke (Jim Bob) (Pd41044039)
Registered Member Username: Pd41044039 Post Number: 599 Registered: 2-2001 Posted From: 184.0.13.120  Rating: N/A |
Ed, That green flash is sometimes seen in Key West too. | ||
| Jack Fids (Jack_fids)
Registered Member Username: Jack_fids Post Number: 563 Registered: 1-2009 Posted From: 72.211.128.245 Rating: N/A |
Down in Antarctica they term it THE BLINK, it is green & depending on the sky color before the Sunset (dark orange to bright Yellow) the Blink is either dark green or lighter. |
