Day After Solstice

Jupiter and the moon on Solstice last night.

Solstice celebration fire

Jupiter and the moon early this morning.

The Big Dipper rising early this morning.

Orion in black lace trees in the wee hours of the morning.

Dusk this evening

Moon shining through the clouds tonight.

More Gray

Moon got caught in black lace trees trying to shine through the clouds last night.

Dawn was quite colorful.

Sunrise was drab

Cottonball clouds at 9:00

Thick clouds at noon

Cranes at 3:00

Gray sunset at 5:00

No moon is seen through thick clouds over black lace trees tonight.

Gray Day

Gray Dawn

Gray morning

Cranes fly over under skies

Daddy Owl hanging at dusk on the nest I hung on Susan’s Tree.

Daddy Owl loves the pedestal of bark I built onto the nest. It’s a good perch to hoot on.

Gray sunset

Puddle Down

Snowing in the parking lot

We got a half an inch of rain today. I noticed the rain had washed out part of the bridge as I drove over it on the way home this afternoon. After I got home, I changed my clothes, put on boots, gathered up a shovel and a wheelbarrow, walked the quarter mile back up to the bridge, and filled the hole before it grew larger. After I filled the hole in the bridge, I filled many of the larger holes in the road where it runs parallel to the ditch before it got dark.

The photo on the left shows a long puddle in the road reflecting the sunset. The photo on the right shows a long puddle filled with dirt, and the water splashed to the side, reflecting the dusk.

Spunk grooving on a beanbag.

Spunk meditating on magic dirt clods while grooving on a beanbag.

Bookends

Venus shines through clouds reflecting city lights in pre-dawn darkness.

Clouds and contrails in the late afternoon.

Clouds breaking up at sunset.

Black lace at dusk

Jupiter shines through clouds reflecting city lights in post-dusk darkness.