Residents in Aotearoa: A couple of evenings with the moon

Thursday, 8 July 2021

A couple of evenings with the moon

We have been spending time lately watching the evenings develop from the comfort of our balcony.

This post will show you some of the pictures I took on two nights toward the end of February 2021.

First night:

Second night:

I've got some more moon pictures I'll show you sometime soon. We're into our rainy season now so I'm not taking many lately. -djf

4 comments:

Dianne8 July 2021 at 03:00
Oooo I like all of these! But the fifth one in your second night especially caught my imagination as a huge luminous globe being held by frothy hands of the sea.
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Doug Foster8 July 2021 at 12:21
Very poetic, Dianne. I'm glad that you liked them.
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Dianne15 July 2021 at 11:16
whoa! just noticed you changed the name of your blog! This tells me that you no longer consider yourselves as strangers and your country of residence is no longer so strange to you. Good on ya! I was wondering when you'd make that transition! Cheers to you!🍻
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Doug Foster15 July 2021 at 12:22
I think the change was overdue actually.
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My deer blind, a place outside of time and space.

This is a picture of my deer hunting blind. I built in in 1975 and used it until about 2010. I'm publishing this picture and text on November 15 of 2022, the opening day of Michigan's rifle deer hunting season, to remember all the years I spent sitting there and occasionally harvesting a deer. I think that the meat I provided for my family was only a small portion of the benefit I received from hunting in this manner. Of greater value to me was the time I spent alone, watching the forest and its many components interact. I had time to unwind from the stresses of my work, to appreciate our world, and even sometimes to pray. That blind was a refuge to me. It was cozy, and comfortable and I spent much more time filming the activities of not only deer, but bears, racoons, turkeys, squirrels, hawks, and once, even a snowy owl, than I did harvesting deer. May I suggest to all of you that you try to find some time and a place, where you can be alone, and where you can ponder and appreciate your life and your place in the world. It does a body good. -djf