Lunar Eclipse December 21st, 2010

I stayed up all night and it was worth it!

Hello Kitty!

Playing with my Macro.
Our Kitty David.

Amazing how well you can see me in his eye!

The Heaven's Declare...

Welcome Fall!

 

 

Cuteness Overload Turkey and Kittens

 

I love Roses

Roses in Bloom

Roses growing on our property.

I still desire to capture one of the two owls that live on our property. This is my latest Capture.

Spring

Cardinal

Moon

Tonight's Moon was a Wolf Moon
Tonight's full moon will be the biggest and brightest full moon of the year. It offers anyone with clear skies an opportunity to identify easy-to-see features on the moon.
This being the first full moon of 2010, it is also known as the wolf moon, a moniker dating back to Native American culture and the notion that hungry wolves howled at the full moon on cold winter nights. Each month brings another full moon name.
But why will this moon be bigger than others? Here's how the moon works:
The moon is, on average, 238,855 miles (384,400 km) from Earth. The moon's orbit around Earth – which causes it to go through all its phases once every 29.5 days – is not a perfect circle, but rather an ellipse. One side of the orbit is 31,070 miles (50,000 km) closer than the other.
So in each orbit, the moon reaches this closest point to us, called perigee. Once or twice a year, perigee coincides with a full moon, as it will tonight, making the moon bigger and brighter than any other full moons during the year.
Tonight it will be about 14 percent wider and 30 percent brighter than lesser full Moons of the year, according to Spaceweather.com.
As a bonus, Mars will be just to the left of the moon tonight. Look for the reddish, star-like object.

The darker areas are known as maria (singular mare, Latin for sea), though they have never seen a drop of water in the last four billion years. The lighter areas are mostly cratered highlands, where relatively recent asteroids have crashed into the moon's surface, exposing bright rock beneath the surface.
The largest dark area on the moon, on the left side, is actually called an "ocean": the Oceanus Procellarum or Ocean of Storms. Just above it, and almost as large, is the Mare Imbrium or Sea of Showers. Opposite Imbrium on the right side of the moon is a triangle of three smaller "seas": the Mare Serenitatis (Sea of Serenity), Mare Tranquillitatis (Sea of Tranquility) and Mare Crisium (Sea of Crises).
Although there are smaller seas, most of the rest of the moon's near side is highlands, covered with hundreds of craters. By far the most prominent of these is Tycho, named for Tycho Brahe, the greatest astronomer of the sixteenth century. This crater is brilliantly white, and is the source of a huge system of rays: bright linear features which encircle the globe of the moon. The Tycho ray system, along with several smaller ray systems, are best seen when the moon is full.

Winter Wonderland

More Winter Images Here...

Farmer Sunset

Sunrays

The trees are barely changing color in Kansas yet. I have no fall decorations up. But then I remembered my little patch of Golden Rod  near our field. So I decided to go during the twilight hour and see if I could get anything.
 

Getting covered from the waist down in 100's of stickers....
Definetely Worth it!

Shapes in Nature

I started off with this. I loved that many shapes were in this one object. Then I was taking photos and my son got attacked by this.
You can't see it but my son is holding his tail with a glove.He was HUGE. The length of my sons hand. He bite my son with his huge jaws. So I decided to get his photo up close if I could.
But when I was looking at the close ups I was noticing the shapes on this guy. The ovals, squares and rectangles. These Macro photos were brightened in PhotoImpact to see the details better.
The awesome intricate squares on the wings.
My 10 yr old said they looked like stained glass windows.
Here is a photo of the dragonfly with my sons help. We could not let go of him or he would attack us. So my 12 yr old son wore gloves to help me with the photo shoot. I just cropped him out of the photos. The dragonfly kept curling up and biting my son over and over. But the gloves kept him safe.

Macro

Blue Dragonfly

Garlic seed head

Bugs (I think they are lightening bugs but not 100% sure) on a Purple Coneflower

Bee Balm

Purple Coneflowers

Summer

Summer is a lot of things. My beautiful Momosia (sp) tree gives me it's wonderful firecracker blossoms.

The grass grows green and lush. Of course then it needs to be mowed.

My sons playing with frogs and toads. (This one is a frog)

Wanting to see them fly! LOL

And another view for my son! :)

(I won't say how many shots it took to catch him BLURRY at that, jumping!
But best of all we get to catch Fireflies every night.

You Capture/Summer