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I will not make many friends here, but I really do not like bicycles. Yes, they're clean. Yes, they're efficient. And yes, they're good exercise. But as both a regular pedestrian and a frequent automobile driver, a day simply would not be a day without a bicycle swerving around a blind corner in a confined space where they should not be in the first place, and either trying to run me over or trying to be run over by me. Fortunately, Berlin is crisscrossed by well-marked bicycle lanes and dedicated bicycle stoplights, like this one on Alexanderstraße in Mitte, to make riding easier and safer for everybody involved. And occasionally - but only occasionally - bicyclists even pay attention to them!
Stoplight Parrotfish seen while diving the Palancar Reef on Cozumel, Quintana Roo, Mexico in February 2022.
As the sun was rising this strange almost fully orange rainbow appeared across the sky. If you look closely you can see it just where the stoplight ends. Do these have a name?
It looked like the thicker clouds were actually raining - in fact, we could see a fragment of rainbow off to the right of the frame - but there was no sign of the rain actually reaching the ground anywhere.
The golden hour sunlight (not quite as orange as in this picture; I'll need to adjust the color balance) reflected off of the cloud cover made for eerie lightning. It reminded me a bit of being in the smoke plume of a wildfire, except for the fact that the air was clear. (Clearer than usual, actually, with the Santa Anas blowing.)