I walked out to the river at dusk to see if I could get the moonrise. Only gray clouds from the approaching storm.
Demons and dragons closing in on Resa’s tree.
I woke up a 3:30 am, walked outside, and shot the moon as it slipped through the clouds before disappearing behind the trees.
A tree held onto the moon after it slipped through the clouds.
Mars, Jupiter, and Venus at 3:48 am.
Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn at 2:30 am.
Night Sky
Sasha
Spunk breaking in my new book.
Marble interrupted the book breaking in process.
Nighthawk. Moo cow. Beaver
I finished Three Years Of her Life by C.E Robinson. Below is a quick review:
When Christine started posting snippets from her book Three Years OF her Life on her blog, Before Sundown, I was intrigued yet apprehensive. The last “slice of life” book I read covered 200 years of family life in over 600 pages. It was long and boring and it just didn’t do it for me. Christine had three years of “her” life in 451 pages. What was I in for? Surprisingly, Christine made three years of Elizabeth becoming a nurse, romancing a doctor (or a doctor romancing her), and pursuing her musical interests while discovering family secrets in the early 1960s into an accessible, easy-to-read, entertaining book.
She offers the reader a fascinating journey that includes the mundane, the most beautiful, and the ugliest aspects of the human condition. Elizabeth is a very smart and attractive young woman. Still, she is plagued by manifold emotions from growing up in a broken home and under the care of her abusive grandmother. No matter how hard she works, or how well she does, there’s always doubt about herself and her success. She’s constantly worried that the men who made their way into her life would leave her. She had good reason to worry; her sample was one hundred percent.
Elizabeth persists, and while romance and her musical interests get a little dicey, it’s the end of the book that really grabbed my attention. The reality of the cold war hit home, and the consequences were grave. By the end of the book, I wanted the story to continue to see what happened with her family life, nursing career, and musical interests. Christine said there is a second underway.
The night sky looking north and south. A half-moon is in the clouds in the southern sky.
The night sky looking east and west.
Gwendolyn
Happy 4th of July. Today is Glenda’s and Gwendolyn’s birthday. They are two years old.
Glenda
Happy 4rth of July. This is as close to getting fireworks as I’m going to get tonight.
The moon manage to shine through the cloud cover last night. No moon tonight.
4:17 am in the falling rain. There’s a planetary alignment behind those clouds.
I looked to the west and saw Wile E. Coyote laughing at me.
4:45 am. I can see the moon, Mars and Jupiter.
The alignment if there were no mountains, trees or clouds.
Esatern sky at 4:51 am, 5:07 am, and 6:30 am.
A Shasta Daisy Galaxy
A bored Buddy in a meeting this morning.
Water like chocolate in the acequia madre.
Plowed earth lies barren
Fertile ground parched and thirsty
Spilled seeds will not grow
Moon tunnel lights night sky
Portal to the other side
Hallucinations sleeping souls
Keeper of our dreams
Jupiter sits on Sandia Crest
Saturn basks in a golden glow
Stars still hang in space
Midnight rainbow hangs at two
Stars peek through smokey hues
Brushstrokes blotches arcs
Orange, greens, magenta, blues
Jupiter rising into blue
Saturn sees the moon at two
Moon shadow at 2:00 am
I went to bed before the moon rose last night. However, I woke up at 2:00 am and walked out with the moon and the stars. The moon was so bright it was casting very sharp shadows. My moon exposures were major to say the least.
The sky at 2:00 am illuminated by a super Strawberry moon.
Super Strawberry moon, 99.9% full, at 2:00 am. My exposure was 1/2500 of a second, ƒ/7.1 at 100 ISO. I believe that is the first time I have gotten that much detail in a supermoon.
Blue grosbeak
We have not seen Peter, Paul, and Mary for the past three nights. They probably flew further south in search of food. However, we did see three beavers feasting on willows.
Bullfrog, a female Wood duck in the Clearwater ditch, and a male Wood duck in the Rio Grande.
The June Moon, a super Strawberry Moon, rose at 8:20 last night at sunset.
All the blurry streaks and dots are gnats swarming around.
Shey’s tree, colored clouds, and streaky sky with bat blurs.
