It was just over two weeks ago that we saw this beautiful cloud iridescence in our garden while we were having lunch.
Today was too hot for the garden so we took off to the beach and at 13.06 Kourosh noticed a rainbow around the sun.
He shot off a few snaps with his mobile phone, not expecting to capture anything but I think these photographs give you an idea of what it was like. Unfortunately, the colours are not as vivid as they were. In fact it appeared as a circular rainbow around the sun.
These photographs were taken at Meschers on the Gironde estuary at around 13.06. According to Wikipedia these are formed by ice crystals in cirrus clouds. Indeed, the sky was very blue but there were some very pretty wispy clouds around.
Now I am going to check out more frequently what is happening above me.
a french garden 