katlaughing,

That's the one I was going to mention, except that I also know what the phenomenon is called: the Brocken Bow or the Brocken Spectre. If you Google Brocken Spectre and click on the Images link above the search box you can see some pictures. A lovely older lady who used to come into the reference library where I worked told me about it. It's named after a mountain in Germany where the phenomenon occurs with your shadow at the centre.

I saw one from a small plane while flying between Newcastle & Sydney, Oz, which is a spectacular trip. It follows the coastline all the way down and then flys in over Sydney Harbour. One of the best bits is the large Hawkesbury River area halfway between the two cities. It has lots of smaller waterways and the hills are covered in forests, which I guess we all used to take for granted, but having flown over other areas of our state most of what used to be forests look like leather which has been scraped back, bare with brown grasses, and a few scraggly trees here and there.

Helen