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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In gratitude forever … .

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

Some random nature pics to share

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I before E except after C
Or when sounding like A as in neighbor and weigh
Or in science and ageist, when syllables split
English is weird, but I don't give a crap.

I love the cloud one.

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Oh nice, elengil.
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'You just said "your getting shorter": you've obviously been drinking too much ent-draught and not enough Prim's.' - Jude

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

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In gratitude forever … .

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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I before E except after C
Or when sounding like A as in neighbor and weigh
Or in science and ageist, when syllables split
English is weird, but I don't give a crap.

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

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“I am not so blind that I can't see darkness.”
Dangerous Beans
Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

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

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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“I am not so blind that I can't see darkness.”
Dangerous Beans
Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

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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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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In gratitude forever … .

In Oregon, you say it questioningly?

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