The painter took Christmas off. We had a colorless (gray) Christmas morning.
Jake waiting to open his Christmas present. Sasha is giving him kitty Mad Dogs.
The moon through a veil of clouds.
Tristan embroidered this amazing tiny portrait for Spunk for Laurie.
Tristan’s beautiful Bearded Dragon, Donny, made an appearance for Christmas.
Got that Flamingo Feeling!
The landings
The second to the last of the full moons rising on the day before yesterday’s Frost Moon.
The last full moon of 2021 rising over the Sandias. The December full moon has many names, one of which is the Frost Moon.
Venus in the cottonwood at Village Pizza. Saturn and Jupiter are to the right.
With the clouds in the above photo 15 minutes before sunset, I was expecting a very colorful sunset. But the painter fooled me and only gave us a pallet of gray.
At least the orchid came through with some color.
Cracked-up clouds covered the moon at dusk.
Jupiter, Saturn and Venus are aligned with the moon close by, but not quite inline. While I was waiting for it to get dark enough for Saturn to show up clearly, I almost lost Venus in the trees.
Jupiter
As we began the final month in the year of our Lord 2021, a sliver moon called at dawn. I answered with my iPhone and we had a rather colorful conversation before sunrise.
Resa has a fantastic post called OtherWorld Redux with fabulous artwork in her continuing adventures of Princess Blue Holly saving the ArtGown Models from the evil mechanization of DracGoth and Evilomlap Etagloc.
Abstract Expressionless
Moon this morning.
My best Saturn shot so far.
Jupiter with three moons.
Sunset
A murder at sunset
Beaver Moon rising as viewed from Beaver Point.
500-year lunar eclipse taken approximately every 15 minutes from 12:44 am to 3:30 am with Beaver Moon in clouds and beaver.
pTerodactyl watching, reflecting, flying
Crow with Venus. Owl in silhouette.
Jupiter. Venus. Beaver Moon in the trees.
Off Center & Not Even 