April 3, 2019 Barr Lake Denver Colorado

Jan 21, 2019 Lunar Eclipse

I have had the opportunity to loose sleep 

several times as I have stayed up to watch 

a lunar eclipse. 

I will never get tired from it though since

it always is such an amazing thing to be able to go from

seeing everything so well with the full moon light 

to seeing practically nothing in the absence of the light.

According to the web the eclipse was supposed to start at 2 am 

on the 21st of January, but while driving home

from a family party I could see the eclipse was starting

around 8 pm on the 20th.

We got home and I got out my camera and took

many pictures through the eclipse which ended for me

around 12:30 am on the 21st.

 This is when it was just starting.

Later I photographed it when it was pretty much

at a complete eclipse. We had enough of the angle 

that it showed the effect of the red moon.

 

 Then after it had moved into the latter end

of the eclipse the light was back to white.

The clouds were also staring to move in for the 

storm predicted the following day so the 

eclipse was starting to be blocked out.

This was the last image I took as it was nearly 

completed.

What a fun experience.

Stay at Home Deer

It seems I have some stay at home deer. 

A doe early this year brought her tow fawns to visit. 

They were behind my shed and inside the fence in a 

pretty hard place to get out. But they finally did 

and one with mom and the other went the opposite direction. 

I was worried about her finding the second one 

but those worries were later dashed as I have seen 

them many times since here in the yard. 

Now that winter has set in we see them almost 

daily as they sleep here a lot so they are by the 

apple trees and the fallen apples that I didn't clean up

or piled in the garden to use as mulch. 

There were so many that we couldn't 

can, dry, freeze dry, or give them all away 

so the deer by default have been able to feed 

on them as well as other plants around the yard.

 I love the shadow on the tree trunk with this little one.

 These are the two fawns. 

Another doe with the first three. 

 See the vehicles go by and they just keep eating.

They are only about twenty feet from the road.

 They do watch them with interest however 

and are ready to turn and run if needed.