This weekend there was a rare Seasonal Blue Moom. And I was there with my camera when it rose!
It was huge and orange! A seasonal Blue Moon is different from the regular ones. It is when a season has four full moons instead of three, and it is the third one.
This only happens once every two or three years. Oh, and if you were expecting an actual blue moon, here you go! Edited, of course...
There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
George Carlin
On the drive from my last post, this is the first thing we saw.
It was an Osprey (Fish Eagle) sitting under the moon.
Nearby, we spotted a Green Heron.
And standing by the river was a majestic Blue Heron. They are very good at being absolutely still for long periods of time.
A second Blue Heron was behind a chain link fence. I like the way the bird and it's reflection are in different fence sections.
The mountains were blue in the dusk.
And the moon was getting brighter. Time to go home.
“Nature is new every
morning, but its cycles are ancient, independent of all our anxieties,
oblivious to our plans.”
~Barbara Cawthorne Crafton
Yesterday and today were fabulous for birdwatching! Last night and again today, we spotted a Black Crowned Night Heron. Only the third time I have ever spotted one. I had been hunting for this one all summer. It was far away and behind a fence at twilight, so the photos aren't the best.
Then this evening, in the same area, we spotted a Yellow Crowned Heron! This is a bird I had never seen before. It was really getting dark by now.
But this was not the end of our birding adventure! My next post will show you what else we saw.
A bird does not sing
because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
~Chinese proverb
We were in a nearby town in front of a local strip mall, and bee things and places seemed to be everywhere! They had a drive-thru coffee shop "The Queen Bean".
The florist was "Honey Bee's".
The U.P.S. drop off box was even bee colored!
And the local bus was bee colored.
We came home to find that our next door neighbor had hung out a bee flag.
The other evening, the sunset was pink again from distant fire smoke. In order.
Pink — it was love at
first sight...
Pink — it's like red but not quite...
~Richie Supa, Glen Ballard, & Steven Tyler
Yesterday Phil's brothers and their wives came over. It is rare for us all to be together, and it is always fun. One is from Pa. and one fron North Carolina. Only one brother was not able to come. Here is Phil with his brothers.
Here are the brothers and their wives.
They wanted to take a picture of us, too!
Two of you identified the tree in my previous post! Photowannabe and Hootin' Anni. It is, indeed, a Golden Rain Tree! Collectively, you guys all know much more then a genius! I will be out of action again in blogland here on Friday. We are hosting a tiny reunion at our house; the four people are all vacinnated. Hoping to post photos of them on my next post. Till I see you next, look at this wall. Looks like someone stole an entire house, but had to run and left part of a wall! This is maybe an hour away from here. It has been there forever!
We build too many walls, and not enough bridges
Isaac Newton
One of my favorites just snapped recently. "The sky put on its brightest orange sweater and called it evening."
