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.
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.
Dawn
Venus and the Moon after the clouds cleared away.
The Pleiades and Jupiter
Jupiter and black lace
Venus and the Moon through condensation.
Golden hour
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
Purple dawn with Venus on the right.
Purple Dawn with the Moon in the middle
Orange dusk
Orange dusk through Black lace
Jupiter peeks through deep blue
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
Beaver Moon in the morning shining through the clouds at dawn.
Bird watching the sunset atop a tree at the office.
Stop and go sunset
Beaver moon rising over Casa.
Beaver Moon, The Pleiades, and Jupiter all lined up.
Snowing lightning
With my numb, arthritic fingers, I can’t type worth beans these days. I thought I commented to Lavinia, “It’s snowing lightly now,” but auto-mistake changed whatever typo I made on “lightly” to lighting. Lavinia read it as “lightning” and replied that she had only seen “snow lightning” a few times in her life. I replied that I had never seen it. Then Deborah chimed in on snow lightning, as well. As you can see in the above photo, I made snow lightning.
All the confusion about snow lightning occurred because it snowed last night and this morning.
Kitties in the snow
Clear sky in the west at sunset
Vulture watching the Beaver Moon rise. Jupiter looks on.
The moon is 98.3% full tonight. It will be 99.9% full tomorrow night. The official full moon is on Monday when it doesn’t pass the meridian. It will still be 99% full on Tuesday.
Beaver Moon swimming in a sea of clouds. Jupiter looks on.
Beaver Moon in colorful whipped cream clouds. Jupiter looks on.
WordPress reminded me that I’ve been blogging for thirteen years. I think it’s time to retire.
The Moon, Jupiter, and lacy trees
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