Skywatch: Strawberry Moon

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Scavenger Hunt Sunday

1.Bring Me Flowers

This is my little Granddaughter Lily showing me the bouquet of Azalea and Fleabane I let her have. She LOVES to pick flowers so she has to be taught what to pick and what to leave alone. She picks them and anxiously runs to give them away.

2. Visual Contrast

I chose to show visual contrast between natural/man-made. The wooden barrel, the ironwork and the wooden siding give lots of texture with the plant and I almost think it's too much but the image is slowly growing on me.

3. Friendship

This is the dangling part of a metal bookmark that my friend Doris made for me and sent to me on my birthday after I moved 500 miles away. Her friendship is very dear to me and I hope she knows just how much she means to me.

4. Before and After
Fiddlehead Ferns

5.Dark

The photo is from my archives of the supermoon. I added the quote for the scavenger hunt prompt of dark.

Posted for Ashley's Scavenger Hunt Sunday.

Skywatch and Weekend Reflections

Sunday night I looked out my sun room window and noticed the moon glowing high in the sky.
The cloud formations behind the moon reminded me of a beach with the tracks of dune buggies embedded in the sand. Often when I take shots of the moon I get the green reflection that I know distracts some folks; but I like that it gives the photo an otherworldly feel. :)

Seventeen minutes later when the clouds had dissipated I took this more traditional photo of the moon high in the sky. There certainly was a big ole' moon that night.

Thursday at just past noon the sky was filled with fluffy white clouds in a beautiful blue sky.

The Black Pearl (that is indeed the factory named paint color for my Jeep) had just been washed and waxed and was a perfect canvas on which to capture these sky reflections.

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Looking at the Sky: Daytime Moon

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The Sun and The Moon

Sepia Scenes is at Carletta's Captures.

It was a cold wintry day a week ago Sunday when I returned home from getting the newspaper. The sun was up there in the sky sending down rays to earth wanting desperately to pop through the clouds.For a few moments it did; but it looked more like a nighttime moon!

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Just the night before the moon itself was but a sliver in the sky.

Sky Watch: Early Evening Moon

Traveling down the interstate after visiting my Mom on Monday I looked out the window to my left and saw a huge Autumn moon rising in the last light of the day. After exiting the interstate I took the first ridge I came to to try and find a high spot to take a photo before night descended.

About five minutes later grasses on a high embankment by the roadway framed the moon as darkness beckoned closer.

Coming to the end of the ridge there was time for one last shot over the mountains in the distance and time to head on home.

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Skywatch - Signing the Sky

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"A sunrise is God's promise the world should go on, a sunset his signature."

I took these images on June 14th. The first two are from my front porch and the rest from the open field just below the hill I live on. They are posted in the order in which I took them and were taken in the span of about thirty-five minutes. It was amazing to watch the color of the sky change so dramatically over the course of those few minutes. While watching this wonderful transformation of color I turned and there was the moon high in the sky behind me.

On this evening God's paintbrush left a beautiful signature!

Project Looking Through: Through the Frame - Take Three

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A Pale Daytime Moon

Pale moon in the sky

A faint afternoon delight

Glowing down on me

When I first started this project with Mark I chose the picture frame to look through. I second guessed myself a lot on the choice. I appreciate that Mark's first comments were positive and that gave me the incentive to carry on. But, I truly wondered how many days I could take that frame and make it work.

On Wednesday I noticed the moon high in the sky. It was a gamble; but I hoped it would work. I am pleased with how this one came out. My partner needed a steady hand to hold that frame that high in the air!

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