Category: Trees

Frosted Flake

Timothy Price39 Comments

Venus, the Moon, and I rose at the same time this morning.

Twenty-four degrees
I stood out in my skivvies
Like a frosted flake

Venus and the Moon shapeshifted through the glass.

The various crescents are moonlight fractured by condensation on the glass. Venus made some mean-looking faces.

Back to normal

Venus and the Moon at dawn.

Lower left to top: Orion, Kiss Flying-V, and The Pleiades. Top right: Jupiter.

Brad mentioned seeing The Pleiades in yesterday’s photo meant Orion was not far behind. I’ve taken many photos with Orion in them recently, but I haven’t posted Orion in a while.

X & Gold

Timothy Price38 Comments

The low sun turned the brown leaves on the trees gold.

Dusk

I walked out to talk to Daddy Owl who was on the nest in Susan’s tree hooting up a storm. It was too dark to get a photo of him, but the orange dusk was begging to be photographed, and Jupiter was in Gigi’s tree.

Jupiter

pTerodactyl Tree Morning

Timothy Price42 Comments

Jupiter shining through the clouds last night. I have no idea what the alien mushroom is.

Lacy trees under cloudy sky

First view of the pTerodactyl in the tree this morning.

pTerodactyl in deep thought

Sasha wearing Spunk’s ears

Morning moon

Frost-edged cottonwood leaf

Sandhill cranes foraging in a field.

Sandias with snow

Sandias behind dead trees

Déjà Foo

Timothy Price37 Comments

Moon rising behind clouds

The persistence of “the same as it ever was” is alive and well. Photos of night-time, the moon, planets, dawn, sunset, and dusk prevail. It’s déjà foo† all over again. And again. And again. And again…

Venus at dawn

Moon at dawn

Silver-lined clouds near sunset

Water backed up behind a beaver dam in the Cleatwater ditch

Gigi’s tree with clouds at sunset.

Cranes flying to roost at dusk

†Foo is a metasyntactic variable used to represent an unspecified entity (how I currently identify). It can be used to name entities such as variables, functions, and commands whose exact identity is unimportant and serves only to demonstrate a concept…