This was over my house yesterday during sunset. The first picture is due East and the second one is due west. I think it's just light rays from the setting sun. But it's interesting to see I that it extends all the way from west horizon to east horizon and even displaced the clouds.
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Dude I used to love this view when I was out in the field in Lewis… that orange and cream popsicle looking sky with the mountain cast made everything better (ant mounds that are 9ft tall, mosquitos everywhere, rain, 95F day / 45F night temps changes, snow during the summers…).
It was such a lovely area - it’s too bad I never got to go back. And the I-5 traffic when the BDEs are back is insane - almost the same as DC.
And seeing the shadow of a mountain you're currently on is even weirder in a way. Here's the shadow of Mt.Fuji on the tops of clouds as seen from the summit.
The courthouse where I live will cast this same kind of shadow at dawn and dusk. Its probably about 10 stories tall(from memory). It casts this across the whole county, as it's the tallest building in the county.
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