Eclipse of the Super Moon

Tonight after church, we hurried home so I could take pictures of the eclipse of the Super Moon.  Not only is it the closest the full moon will be all year, it was also a full eclipse.  We got home at 8:09 p.m. – just as the eclipse was starting. 

Larry made popcorn while I went out on the deck with camera and tripod and started snapping away.  Larry came out too – and was immediately enveloped in a cloud of feasting mosquitoes.  He retreated back into the laundry room and sat on a barber stool just inside the screen patio door.  I, on the other hand, didn’t get one solitary mosquito bite, though I was out there off and on for the majority of four hours.  Hot buttered popcorn, steaming coffee, a large wooden deck out in the country, an owl hooting in the maple tree, a cat purring underfoot, and an eclipse going on.  What more could a person ask?

I took enough photos that it’s going to take me until the next eclipse to sort through them all.  :-D  But here are a few (and some of Teensy, who kept me company).  (Tabby did, too; but he spent his time sitting directly behind my feet, so that if I backed up I’d step on him, and then give him lots of apologies and petting).

Teddy called to ask if I knew the moon was ‘getting covered up’, and then he asked if we could hear his kids running up and down the road laughing from clear over here.  (We’re perhaps a quarter of a mile west of them.) 

“Is that what that is!” I said.  “I thought it was coyotes.”

(He gave me the opening; I cannot be blamed for stepping through.)  (And he did laugh.)


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See the stars?