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 
I had no idea about the sun ever having a rainbow around it.
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It is a first for us too. Amelia
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Nature offers us some quite wonderful views if we are open to seeing them.
Take care and thank you for sharing these unusual sights.
Janine
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I think a lot of the time we do not think to look. I must admit I was reading on the beach and would never have noticed, it was Kourosh who saw it. Amelia
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Sun dogs.
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Mmm. this was a complete, perfect circle and the rainbow was visible to the eye but not in the photo. Amelia
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Welcome to “Cloudwatchers Anonymous”
This is the book you need
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I will look into this book. I have been looking at the clouds more recently as we have been having beautiful blue skies and lots of lovely fluffy cirrus clouds that are quite fanciful. Amelia
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The book is ordered!
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Marvelous photographs!
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Kourosh was lucky to have his mobile phone to hand as we do not take cameras to the beach. Amelia
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We saw a similar phenomenon one winter’s evening around the moon, it was purely by chance that I looked out of the window and noticed the circular rainbow effect.
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It is so special when we are lucky enough to observe these natural phenomena. Amelia
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