Happy Super Beaver Moon!
One shot as the moon was just rising over the tree tops in my yard:
and then one later, higher, and brighter:
Tag: supermoon
Twelve hours before full.
My best shot of the supermoon rising last night. Not as good as I would have liked. I played with ISO, aperture and shutter speed. Forgot to take off polarizing filter (doh).
A fun, full, first weekend of Fall!
We’ve been busy! This past weekend, we made a roadtrip out to west, stopping first at William Chris Winery, where we caught up with a friend of ours that we ran into, by chance; then we hopped over to Wildseed Farms to pickup a bunch of seed; then made it over to one of our faves, Becker Vineyards, where we had a tasting, a picnic, and checked out their new field of zinnias. Just beautiful.
On the way home we headed over to the Real Ale Brewery in Blanco. We took the river road south/southeast from Hwy 290 to Blanco, and stopped along the way several times to check out the now lazy river that was uncontrollably raging just 4 months ago, tragically sweeping away homes and families over Memorial Day weekend.
At Real Ale, Monte sampled a flight, and I sipped my favorite – Hans Pils.
Then Sunday rolled around, and we headed out to see the Anderson Mill historical site, near its original location at Cypress Creek on Lake Travis. The Anderson Mill Gardeners do a wonderful job of preserving the site and its history.
We made it to the boat in time to cheer the Seahawks on to their first win of the season, enjoying the recently repaired air conditioning on Nirvana (yay!).
About an hour before sunset, Kurt, Barbara, Dakota and little Leila joined us on the boat, and we motored out to the body of the lake to drift and watch the supermoon lunar eclipse.
Have I mentioned taking photos of the moon and stars on a moving boat is hard? I didn’t get any good shots. But I thought this one was kinda cool… you get the idea.
It was a great weekend, indeed.
A few more pics from Seattle.
In the summer, sunset seems to linger for a very long time in Seattle. This is a shot I took from the ferry on the way home from the game. It must have been about 9:30pm. In this wide panorama you can still see the glow of the sun past the horizon on the left…the city lights including the space needle, the great wheel, and both century link and safeco stadium…and the rising supermoon on the right.
I’ve gotten tired of trying to guess which side of Mt Rainier we’ll fly by on my return flights to Austin. So, I just kept the seat that I was assigned – window on the left side. I got lucky this time and we flew north-to-south past the western face of this great mountain, turning to the southeast as we passed it.
The haze nestled amongst the surrounding foothills is smoke from the ongoing fires in Central Washington. A couple of factoids: Mt Rainier is a volcano; elevation of 14,410′; last recorded eruption was in the 1st half of the 1800’s; home to 26 major glaciers and many ice fields; 6 rivers have glaciers on Mt Rainier as their source. Read more here.
We flew very close to the summit. In this shot of the western face, you can see Sunset Amphitheater on the left and Tahoma Glacier on the right. The black ring on the top right of the dome is the volcanic crater. The summit, Columbia Crest is along that black ring.
Breathtaking.
