All love to be out by the light of the moon.
9-day old, 69% illuminated Waxing Gibbous Moon & the parakeets, clicked on 21 December 2023 at 5:20 pm.
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Gibbous Moon beyond Swedish Mountain: This is a gibbous Moon. More Earthlings are familiar with a full moon, when the entire face of Luna is lit by the Sun, and a crescent moon, when only a sliver of the Moon's face is lit. When more than half of the Moon is illuminated, though, but still short of full illumination, the phase is called gibbous. Rarely seen in television and movies, gibbous moons are quite common in the actual night sky. The featured image was taken in Jämtland, Sweden near the end of 2018 October. That gibbous moon turned, in a few days, into a crescent moon, and then a new moon, then back to a crescent, and a few days past that, back to gibbous. Setting up to capture a picturesque gibbous moonscape, the photographer was quite surprised to find an airplane, surely well in the foreground, appearing to fly past it.
Image Credit & Copyright: Göran Strand
[Robert Scott Horton]
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AFTER THANKSGIVING
Lord, as Rilke says, the year bears down toward winter, past
the purification of the trees, the darkened brook.
Only 4:45, and the sky's sheer black
clasps two clear planets and a skinny moon
as we drive quietly home from the airport,
the last kid gone.
The time of preparation's over, the time of
harvesting the seed, the husk, the kernel, saving
what can be saved - weaves of sun like
rags of old flannel, provident peach stones,
pies, pickles, berry wines to
hold the sweetness for a few more months.
Now the mountains will settle into their old
cold habits, now the white
birch bones will rise
like all those thoughts we've tried to repress:
madness of the solstice, phosphorescent
logic that rules the fifteen-hour night!
Our children, gorged, encouraged, have taken off
in tiny shuddering planes. Plump with stuffing,
we too hurry away, holding hands, holding on.
Soon it'll be January, soon snow will
shuffle down, cold feathers, swathing us in
inches of white silence -
and the ways of the ice
will be narrow, delicate.
- Sandra M. Gilbert
Blood Pressure
[alive on all channels]
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CanNOT believe that this scene features one of my favorite phases of the moon!! Magical.
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Have some Soft QPR Doodles-
Which has me realizing that I need to draw Sleepy Gibbs more often, as well as Asclepius in general.
Anyways, Jacques and Asclepius belong to @rjmeta sibling beloved!
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Gibbous moons are underrated
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Yay! The moon looks like Baymax 😸
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22-day old Waning Gibbous Moon & pollution
Krishna Paksha Saptami
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gibbous moon
... portrait of an indian woman, in blue.
Photographer: Nevil Zaveri
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