13 Minutes to the Moon

 

Rain's prompt this week is "Moon Phases" - I can't really write a lot about that, but I do have a few moon pictures that I have taken over the years. The one above is a moon rise on Christmas Eve over the enchanted land of New Mexico. We were traveling on Interstate 25 from Santa Fe to Pueblo in Colorado when we saw this spectacle in the sky. Fortunately there was an off-ramp close by, so we could safely stop and take pictures of it. I loved the pink shade in the sky as well as on the moon. Only a few minutes later it looked very different.

One evening when the Geek and I walked the neighborhood we watched the full moon and noticed the wires as well. I decided to let it sit on this wire.

Or what about a pole dancing moon?

A few years back, when we returned from an event at the Pepperwood Natural Preserve we were lucky to see the moon rising from behind the trees.

This is another full moon seen over Pepperwood just a few months ago. Here, I didn't have my camera with me and had to make do with my Pixel phone.

I especially love the full moon when the sky is cloudy, it is so atmospheric.

Of course we shouldn't forget about the moon during a lunar eclipse. This is the Super Blue Blood Moon from January 31, 2018.

As a child I was fascinated by the Apollo program, especially the Apollo 11 moon landing. A few years ago I listened to "13 Minutes to the Moon", a BBC podcast about the Apollo 11 mission (later followed by a second season about Apollo 13). It was just as fascinating. 

Back when we traveled to Washington D.C. - a gift we gave to ourselves when Barack Obama was elected the first Black US president - we of course visited the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum where the Apollo 11 command module is on display. It was so tiny! How could three grown men fit in there? It must have been highly uncomfortable.

Now let's get back to Mother Earth and see what's for dinner. The weather has been so nice lately that we started to eat outside whenever possible. We recently got this beautiful picnic table from friends who wanted to get rid of it. It's beneath our big tree now - actually I'm sitting here while I'm writing this post.

That evening we had leftover spaghetti that I sautéed with zucchini, eggplant and red bell pepper. This is also the time to open up the rosé wine bottles - oh, lovely!

This, of course, I am sharing with Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date.