Saturday, December 10, 2011

Moony moon

Hello Everyone,

Because of Jude's posting about the video on Glennis' website, I decided to make an adventure of seeing the lunar eclipse this morning.  I set 2 alarms, but could hardly sleep for fear I'd miss the show.  At about 3 a.m. the full moon was high and bright in the sky, but clouds were hovering.  This is the first photo I took at 5:06 a.m...

Here is the second, at 5:51:

This is the last I was able to take, at 5:53:

I wish I could show you how it looked suspended in the sky, glowing as if lit from within, but my camera couldn't pick up the soft light.  I was down at the dogpark, where many had gathered for viewing.  One couple had a special viewer set up for a close up look.  Oh what a magical sight...our moon, waiting out earth's shadow.   Shortly after 6:30, it became impossible to see any more of the display because of the haze, so I visited the water birds who were getting ready for their day:

Yesterday, I picked one of the last persimmons (sigh) with the picker:

and finished up the felted "Oystercatchers having a discussion about their relationship", to prepare for Open Studios this weekend!


That's all for now.  Have a weekend to remember fondly, hopefully...


8 comments:

  1. oh thanks for those eclipse shots. it was much too overcast here for the partial that would have been visible.

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  2. I'd have loved to see the moon after it got re-lighted by the sun, but feel really lucky to have seen this much, especially since it really looked for a while as though the clouds were going to move in...

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  3. Wishing you a wonderful Christmas weekend, see you next year :-)

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  4. Thank you so much Karen...all the best to you this season...

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  5. Hi Deb...my comment has been delayed by escalating tasks, but now there is a window of time to say thanks for stopping by...do you have oyster catchers in your part of the world? I have fancified them a little here, but they really are quite extraordinary in real life.

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  6. How beautiful... I am bummed I missed it!

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  7. I usually miss astronomical events but this time I went to all sorts of effort to make sure I was there...getting up several times during the night etc., and I was so lucky that there was no cloud cover...

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