A few mornings ago was the slimmest crescent moon and a morning star just by ( Read more... )

Yesterday here it snowed all day, most of the time lightly, but steadily thickening on the ground so that clearing the walks and the steps was soon undone ( Read more... )

...when I got up this morning, I looked out the window and saw the big round moon beginning to set behind the bare branches of a maple, in a pink and blue sky.

She is gone now, and the lovely sun shines in the frosty air promising warmer days to come.

I was out driving just before sunrise today. Between rosy banks of cloud in the East was a beautiful crescent moon. There are many months when I catch the New Moon hanging in the West with an evening star nearby and it is breathtaking, but the waning crescent is more elusive, it seems. Ah, well, all the more special for that ( Read more... )