Mid afternoon and the air was oppressively hot yet dry. A heat wave had struck, yet this happy bronze sun hung in the shade. Just ahead of it, the actual sun-scorched air had reached 100° Fahrenheit (38° Celsius).

The morning had been overcast with a light rain. This sunburst lent a bit of quixotic cheer to the otherwise damp early hours.

Behind the glass of a jewelry store window in the fashionable Gaslamp Quarter of San Diego we found this sunburst as part of the face of a large mechanical clock

On the blue smokestack of the ship Dole Costa Rica, registered in Nassau, was a world depicted in a circle and surrounded by sunbeams.