Anne Elliott's photos with the keyword: rainbow colours

A few of us were on a walk at Votier's Flats, Fish Creek Park, on 4 February 2013, when we noticed an area of cloud that was changing with all the colours of the rainbow. I don't think any of us had ever seen this before - it was beautiful! On Wikipedia, I read that: "The arc has a considerable angular extent and thus, rarely is complete. When only fragments of a cirrus cloud are in the appropriate sky and sun position, they may appear to shine with spectral colours." Does anyone happen to know what this exactly is? Later: this is a reply I just received from Paul Dunphy, who is Global Calgary's weather expert on Global TV, weekdays at 5:00, 6:00 and 11:00 p.m.. He is an endorsed weathercaster of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, and has been delivering the forecast on Global Calgary since 1985. Thanks so much, Paul, for your help with this - difficult, I know, to tell from just one single image. "You’re pretty close with the name, it’s a circumzenithal arc. And you’re right about it being hard to tell from one photograph. It could indeed be part of a circumzenithal arc but I can’t tell from this shot." He kindly sent me the two links below. www.google.ca/search?q=circumzenithal+arc&hl=en&q... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumzenithal_arc

A distant, heavily cropped shot, added just as a colourful holiday reminder. Seen near the Red Lion Hotel in Kalispell, on 17 September 2012. I love to see them, especially ones that have no huge logo on the balloon.

This morning, it's -20C, windchill -30C (-4F, windchill -22F). It's supposed to soar to -16C this afternoon, though, lol! Thought I'd post a splash of colour for everyone who is experiencing bone-chilling temperatures today. So glad I'm not getting a new heating furnace replaced right now - can't imagine being in a house with no heating for a couple of days, when it's this cold. Thank goodness the weather is supposed to warm up this coming week. Stay warm, everyone!

Each of the Venus Flytrap leaftips seemed to be a different colour, some green with a faint touch of pink and red, and some red with stronger rainbow stripes. Hard to imagine something that can look so delicate and pretty being able to close and crush an insect for its next meal. This leaf tip was maybe three quarter's of an inch across, when open, and the same in length "The Venus Flytrap, Dionaea muscipula, is a carnivorous plant that catches and digests animal prey—mostly insects and arachnids. Its trapping structure is formed by the terminal portion of each of the plant's leaves and is triggered by tiny hairs on their inner surfaces. When an insect or spider crawling along the leaves contacts a hair, the trap closes if a different hair is contacted within twenty seconds of the first strike. The requirement of redundant triggering in this mechanism serves as a safeguard against a waste of energy in trapping objects with no nutritional value." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_Flytrap David Attenborough looks at how this well known carnivorous plant captures its prey. This short video is from the BBC. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktIGVtKdgwo