Moonrise

Sanibel Island Not exactly "Moon Over Miami", the 1941 classic movie starring Betty Grable, Don Ameche and Bob Cummings, but close. This was taken from the southern tip of Sanibel Island; lights of Fort Myers on the right. Hand held shot -- I forgot my tripod. Doh! Thought for the Day: Do the best you …

Cedar Creek Sunset

Cedar Creek Sunset Labor Day weekend. Darkness is falling like a shroud; dying embers from our marshmallow roast are losing their glow as the sun falls below the horizon, and the sliver of a moon is little help. I notice that the moon is falling behind the big tree. Hmmm, I always thought while the …

San Juan Sunset

Happy Thanksgiving!  A scene like this makes me truly thankful for Mother Nature. This is actually a sunrise, but the moon implies a sunset.  It's difficult for me to think of the moon in the early morning -- a week from now I won't remember the difference anyway, so I'm just trying to keep it …

Solar Eclipse

Today is the day of the total solar eclipse.  Next time the sun and moon will be in this position over Nebraska will be in 365 years.  And I'm missing it.  Crap! I'm in the Baltic Sea right now, but wanted to commemorate the historic event in my life that I never actually saw.   …

Lunar Eclipse

Sunday night, a week ago, I was out shooting the moon -- no, not going for it all in a pitch game, but photographing the lunar eclipse.  It was a lunar eclipse of a super moon or blood moon, which has only happened four times in the last 100 years.  I thought I should try …