Off topic for a sec.
In 2001 I went on a 40 state music tour that lasted a year.
It is hard for Europeans to imagine what a vast and divergent country this is.
Can't find a photo, alas. Once I caught an early morning train going north in Italy, maybe from Cremona to Vigevano, or Vigevano to Ivrea, or not. Anyway, we passed rice fields that were evaporating visibly as the sun rose. Stunning, and fool didn't take a photo. That might be called 'albedo'.