Day One of my Blogging Experiment: SparkleTown
I really don't know if it was just another of the strange things that are presently going on in my life, or if this phenomenon was completely real. I'm kidding of course, it was genuine, but honestly, at the same time, surreal. I've never seen anything like it. Ever.
All I can say is the sun was well above the mountains as I headed out at 7:50 this morning. I took note of the time because I plan to duplicate my exit-time tomorrow in hope of seeing it again.
The highway is cut into the top of a high ridge. The nearest town is laid out in the valley below as if you were viewing it from an airplane. However today, the town and the automobiles far below me absolutely sparkled. Sparkled! In broad daylight...white-light flashes, apparently from everything with glass - the motion of my car was no doubt a large part of the effect. I think it had to be that the sun was at the perfect height and angle at that time, angle of incidence equals angle of reflection, so that the directly reflected sunlight was coming right at me.
But my little town, not necessarily so pretty in any other kind of light, looked more like Tinseltown than does Tinseltown. Or it might have resembled the hometown of Tinkerbelle (I'm pretty sure she doesn't live there).
As this is a lunchtime blog-burst and may never be repeated, I'll stop there. I haven't been writing much lately because of the aforementioned strangenesses, and this is a break-out effort. Not to mention, it was totally indescribable.
-BT
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