“A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.” ― Eudora Welty
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I rarely photograph daytime Moons, but this one was almost true south and outside my window so had to go out and photograph it.
November 30, 2025. A Waxing Gibbous (74.8%) Moon.
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I wish all those in the USA a Happy Thanksgiving and those living elsewhere a wonderful week and week-end.
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October 31, 2025 was Nevada’s 161st year of Statehood. The celebrations started early in October with many events scheduled throughout the month leading up to the big Birthday Bash on November 1st.
November 1st started really early with Hot Air Balloonist rolling in at 6am to get their balloons ready for an 8AM lift-off. I was there.
I usually pick one balloon and stick with them until they lift off. This year I watched the crew that owns this balloon laying flat on the ground.
The crew pulled up to their spot on the street then they laid out a huge tarp, next they roll out the balloon. The crew is named Cloud Couture Crew. The Balloon’s name is Cloud Couture. It’s piloted by Eric Diamond.
Next they hook up the basket, and gas, check all the lines, then they turn on a huge fan. See it next to the basket on the left? They use the fan to fill the balloon with air. The best part is when they have enough air in the balloon to start heating it up and lifting the balloon! Whoosh! It was warm standing here once they had the flame going.
By the way the balloon is piloted by his boss.
Now the balloon is just about ready to fly!
Officer Lorentzen is invited on board as well as one more passenger, the owner- Delores Martinez. It’s almost Go Time!
I turn my back on the crew a minute to see what’s happening behind me, and find Lift Off has begun!
Let’s look back and see what’s happening behind the Cloud Couture Crew.
Did Officer Lorentzen and crew get off the ground?
I waved good-bye and quietly wished them a great flight, and soft landing.
All in all I counted 18 balloons in the air, but I may have missed a couple.
My girlfriend and I went to breakfast and shed some layers before the parade started at 10AM as it was getting warm out.
Cloud Couture Crew-
Pilot-Eric Diamond
Owner-Delores Martinez
Crew Chief- Stephen Moore
Crew- Anthony, J-Bird, Alex, and Emma.
You can find them on Instagram at CloudCoutureNV
Cloud Couture, thank you for letting me and my camera hang out with you to see all it takes to get your beautiful hot air balloon off the ground!
Happy Wednesday!
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I went out with a friend to try to see if I could find and photograph C/2025 A6 Comet (Lemmon) on October 19th. I didn’t go too far from home just up into the Pinenut Mountains a little bit. l took my 50mm lens so I would be able to see a wide space of the sky and hopefully see it. I never saw it with my eyes or binoculars, but when I got home and uploaded my images I was happy to see my camera had seen it. It’s the tiny green dot upper center of the image.
It’s tiny at 50mm but, I cropped this in a bit for a better look.
The next night I went back to the same spot with my old 80-200mm lens but, I wasn’t able to see it at all. I believe it was too low and behind the hills opposite.
So last night a friend and I went north to a spot I know that had more open sky. It took us a while to find it but, we did. My old lens had a bit of trouble focusing on my newish bigger sensor D810 but, once I uploaded my images I found I had several decent shots of the comet with a hint of its tail too.
It’s always exciting to see a comet and this one is pretty cool. It was 55 million miles from Earth last night and it won’t be back again until the year 3175! Do you think my images will survive for my future family members to see my images made with probably antiquated photography methods and gear? Somewhere between 33 and 46 generations will pass before C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) comes our way again. It boggles my mind.
Did you see it?
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I’ve been seeing fall colors here and there while hiking and birding the last couple of weeks. Here are three of my favorite views so far this fall.
The little tree in the last image was the only tree in full Fall Color. All the huge Cottonwoods only had their tippy tops yellow and the rest of their leaves were green still.
Last Friday after a 5.5 mile birding hike myself and several friends went to an early lunch at the Squeeze In. I had a great salad loaded with bacon, chicken, blue cheese, red peppers, romaine lettuce, and a little balsamic vinaigrette the salad is called The Bleu Moon. I ate the whole thing.
Speaking of food reminded me of drink. Here’s the mug I’ve been using for my tea all this month.
I watched No Country for Old Men from the beginning and I didn’t like the ending at. all. I guess after all these years there will be no sequel to give me the happy ending I was hoping for.
I’m reading Dan Antion’s book Bridge to Nowhere, A Rascal Todd Mystery. I already have the next book in the series ready to read when I finish Bridge to Nowhere. It’s a good series!
Our lows have been in the mid 30’s here so we’re getting ready for winter, and my gloves and heavy coat have already been called into service. We’ve had some rain too. Can you believe it’s already October 15th!? Time isn’t flying by, it’s racing by!
I’ve got some errands to do in town this morning so I may be a little late getting to your posts, and responding to your comments.
Happy Hump Day!
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