This week Mark S’s blog, Naturalist Weekly, is all about the micro-season, The Rainbow Hides Unseen, which is the first micro-season of the mini-season called Minor Snow.
Although rainbows are not seen as regularly in the winter, some rainbows or sun dogs will appear in the sky.
The following are a two haiku and a monoku which feature either rainbows or sun dogs:
ice rainbow…
the sun melts it
all too soon
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ice rainbow
hides in the clouds
–sunny afternoon
*
frosty feathers disappear in sun dogs
~Nancy Brady, 2022
To read other haiku as well as Mark S’s blog, check out https://naturalistweekly.com/2022/11/25/micro-season-the-rainbow-hides-unseen-2022
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You’re so descriptive in your writing. Every word can paint a picture.
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Thanks, JC. You are always so kind about my haiku. If only you were an editor of a haiku journal, alas. ~nan
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Thanks, but you don’t need me. You’re just good. And thank you also for liking my posts too.
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Hi Nancy, I appreciate you introducing sun dogs to this micro-season. They might be more likely at this time of year for us in the northern climates! Thanks for sharing your work and linking up. Have a good week!
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Hi Mark,
I don’t know if sun dogs actually count, but glad you consider them worthy to be counted in with the micro-season. I saw a magnificent one last week driving home. Alas, I didn’t have my camera with me.
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I think we could make an argument for sun dogs as a micro-season. Although it is possible for them to happen at any time of year, people are more likely to see them when the sun is lower in the sky, which would be the winter months.
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Oh… lovely I had to look up Sun Dogs…
I have an idea or two forming… hope they don’t melt before I can pen them 🙂
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I hope you get them down before the muse leaves. The first time I saw one I didn’t know what they were called. I just called them icebows since it was so cold. Lots of time they are circular, but then technically, I think rainbows are too IF we could see below the horizon. ~nan
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Ah… like the halo around the moon that signifies a change in the weather… because of the ice that creates them.
I jotted down some notes ~thanks.
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OK… I posted my three here:
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Mark S. I think so, too, as it is more common to see them this time of year (in the northern hemisphere, that is) because of the sun’s position in the sky. Or is that the earth’s position in relation to the sun?
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Saw them there. Most impressive, JP.
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