The sun was a bonfire three fingers off the horizon, and an exact image of the sky reflected off the surface of the water.
It was a postcard-perfect day at Pebble Beach -- sunny skies and little wind, with the sun reflecting off the Pacific Ocean.
The two beams of radio waves -- one coming directly from the sky, the other reflecting off the water -- produced an interference pattern like the intersecting rings of raindrops hitting a pond.
The magnificent Milky Way stretches across the night sky reflecting on Cable Bay near Nelson, New Zealand.
And if they look up, they might see some light reflecting off the sky, but they don't get a sense of their place in the universe".
The electricity had failed, as it often did, and the full moon climbing the sky lit the scene indirectly, reflecting off the whitewashed walls, throwing dim shadows around the machinery strewn about, plows and planters, drags, harrows.
Sit by the enormous fireplace with a Dr. Frank's dry Riesling, or, take a glass of Meritage from nearby Fox Run outside onto the patio, warm your feet by the fire pit and marvel at the stars, both in the sky and reflected off the mirror-still surface of the Lake.
It's something of a surprise, then, to awaken to blue skies and the glare of sunshine reflecting off snow-covered peaks.
The sky glow, a result of artificial light reflecting off airborne dust, haze or water droplets, blots out even the brilliance of the Milky Way from an expanding area of the Island where darkness no longer really falls.
