If you're on the photo blog you've already met this character - but (s)he was back today:

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Where’s Anthy when we need her?

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“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

Cowering under the covers, I'm sure.

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'But very bright were the stars upon the margin of the world, when at times the clouds about the West were drawn aside.'

We had a bright orange moon today, which I didn't quite manage to capture:





Also, standing at the foot of this hill at night often reminds me of the dell in Weathertop - I just mentally erase the houses and let my imagination go wild.

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Lovely photos, Jude.

I woke at 4:30 this morning, and was very lucky to be able to look out of my window and see the lunar eclipse - the blood moon. It was seriously uncanny, watching the silver light of the moon being swallowed by the shadowy red. And the brilliance of Mars - it seemed big enough and close enough to touch. The full eclipse lasted for almost 2 hours, and by that stage the moon had set, obscured first by the trees, then by the dawn. It was a really remarkable sight and I wish I could have captured in it in a photo...but alas, I ended up with two fuzzy (but pink!) dots in a sea of black.

We had nonstop rain, thunderstorms and then clouds from 7:00 pm yesterday to 5:30ish this morning. All the plans of going to liberty science center and look at Mars through their telescopes were shot....

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*title copyright: Teremia

'You just said "your getting shorter": you've obviously been drinking too much ent-draught and not enough Prim's.' - Jude (as Merry)

Some random nature pics to share

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Window seat for one,
Passage out of town
The old fashioned way:
Train ticket, out bound.
Midnight departure,
Red-eye double-track.
Star filled horizons,
Beacons in the black.
Last call for boarding,
Destination: nowhere.
Two carry-on bags
Ought to get me there.
Don’t know how far
‘Til my journey’s done;
Train ticket, out bound,
Window seat for one.

I love the cloud one.

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Oh nice, elengil.
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*title copyright: Teremia

'You just said "your getting shorter": you've obviously been drinking too much ent-draught and not enough Prim's.' - Jude (as Merry)

Me too! I love all of them, but I particularly love that one.

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'But very bright were the stars upon the margin of the world, when at times the clouds about the West were drawn aside.'

Thank you all! I am always delighted when a picture comes out well, since I pride (?) myself on being a horrible photographer.

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Window seat for one,
Passage out of town
The old fashioned way:
Train ticket, out bound.
Midnight departure,
Red-eye double-track.
Star filled horizons,
Beacons in the black.
Last call for boarding,
Destination: nowhere.
Two carry-on bags
Ought to get me there.
Don’t know how far
‘Til my journey’s done;
Train ticket, out bound,
Window seat for one.

Elengil! We should recruit you for the TORC photography blog!
https://theonering365.wordpress.com/

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“It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.”

- Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens

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*title copyright: Teremia

'You just said "your getting shorter": you've obviously been drinking too much ent-draught and not enough Prim's.' - Jude (as Merry)

Behold! Is that a Black German Shepherd I see shining in the sun in front of me?

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I think it's a wolf, actually.

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Looks more like a mysterious creature from outer space that just beamed down. Possibly an alien intelligence taking a canine shape after observing Earth. As Dave Barry pointed out, if you see two creatures on a walk, and one carries the other's poop, which would you assume is a dominant species?

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“It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.”

- Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens

It's been a while since I saw something on a bike ride that made me stop turn around and go back to take a picture. I couldn't get close enough to get a crisp image with the phone camera, but it still was worth taking.

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'But very bright were the stars upon the margin of the world, when at times the clouds about the West were drawn aside.'

A heron!

....A heron? Around here that’s what I’d say it was.

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“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

Yes, a Great Blue.

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'But very bright were the stars upon the margin of the world, when at times the clouds about the West were drawn aside.'

In Oregon, you say it questioningly?

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*title copyright: Teremia

'You just said "your getting shorter": you've obviously been drinking too much ent-draught and not enough Prim's.' - Jude (as Merry)