A cold front swept through yesterday and rain overnight cleared the sky. Today felt like Fall and there is a frost warning for tonight. The day and evening were beautiful and clear. Karl and I walked out past the edge of the woods about 8:30 to catch moonrise. We were a bit late – it was up in the sky.
*The double click of this is a larger crop – smaller moon with more sky.
I opened my morning email to find this photo and the following from my friend Sandy. Sandy and her husband, Jerry, were the first “From the Front Porch” readers to sit on my front porch with me. I hope to someday visit their home and their back porch :)!
May the wings of the butterfly kiss the sun
And find your shoulder to light on,
To bring you luck, happiness and riches
Today, tomorrow and beyond.
~Irish Blessing
And for Sandy, who loves the moon as I do – here’s one for you!
Moon photo is from this morning (7/30/2010), from my side yard.
Walking down the driveway with Karl, the nearly full moon was visible through the trees. The sunrise alpenglow had me considering a run down the road to see what morning looked like over the valley. But the moon was still high and I didn’t want to leave the woods.
It did not cool off last night to the usual upper 40/low 50’s (F) and was a balmy 67 per my home weather station at 5:00 a.m. this morning. But there were gusts of winds high in the trees and some of that breeze made it to the ground. There was something about the sound of the wind in the trees, the feel of the warm breeze and a bit of melancholy that stopped me from chasing the color and kept me on my home ground.
The upper jet blew the few morning clouds into mares tails. I ventured to the edge of the woods to get a look. I was glad I was held home by the quiet and peace of my own woods.
Thursday evening, it clouded up, got dark and windy, the temperature dropped from 74 to 54 and the NOAA weather alarm went off with a notice of a severe thunderstorm approaching. I unplugged everything and joined Karl and Bob in the bedroom for a cozy evening reading and listening to the wind and low rumble of thunder.
The large cell passed south of us but we had wonderful soaking rain showers off and on all evening and into the night.
I was surprised to see Bob lying in the wet grass Friday morning when we went outside.
Karl checked on him…
And joined him. A bit of pick-up sticks was in order for the day.
The new moisture and rising sun combined to give the morning a misty start.
By the time Karl and I took our morning walk, the mist was just beginning to break up. Sun shone through here and there and lit the edges of misty clouds with lacy light borders.
The day stayed cool and an afternoon walk was all sunshine and blue sky.
Another pale moon and a bit of alpenglow finished our Friday.