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Whatever Weds. Celestial and Birds

July 9, 2025July 8, 2025Posted in Birds, Birds of North America, Moon, Moonrise, Photography, Whatever WednesdayTagged Birding, Cassin's FInch, Nevada, Waxing Gibbous Moons, Whatever Wednesday33 Comments

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While birding last week I saw a Cassin’s Finch chick being fed by its parent and made several images of it. Unfortunately, they were facing me with the sun to their backs and in my face. So, the image isn’t great but, what is… is what I discovered once I uploaded my images.

Off to the right of the birds is a satellite flare. I think it’s a Starlink flare/glint which would be the first time I’ve photographed one of those.

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Regarding this next image- A friend had been sharing his images of the Moon several days ago with me so, the other evening when I saw the Moon shining out my living room window I was inspired to get up and photograph it.

Here’s the moon at 82.7% percent full. A waxing Gibbous Moon from July 6th.

The bottom crater is Tycho. I really like its crusty textured bits. I know the other large crater off on the left below the Sea of Showers is the Copernicus Crater. I wish I didn’t need a poster to help me every single time with the other sea and crater names, but I do.

July’s Full Moon is called the Buck Moon. It also has several other names like Thunder Moon, and Hay Moon.

The Full Moon this month is July 10th.

Fun Facts:

This full moon coincides with a Major Lunar Standstill in 2025, making the moon appear especially low in the sky after sunset due to its orbital path and the recent summer solstice.

It will be the farthest full moon from the Sun in 2025, occurring shortly after Earth reached aphelion — the point in its orbit farthest from the Sun.
In some regions, such as India, the full moon coincides with Guru Purnima, a spiritually significant event, enhancing its cultural importance.
The Buck Moon gets its name from the Algonquin-speaking Native American tribes, as July is the time when male deer (bucks) begin to grow new antlers covered in velvet, symbolizing renewal and growth.

Fun facts gleaned from Space.com

Nikon D850| Nikkor 500mm PF-e| Processed with Photoshop CC

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Whatever Weds. Thank you!!

July 2, 2025July 1, 2025Posted in Nevada, WildflowersTagged and community, friends, Grateful, I appreciate my blogging friends so much, My heart is full of gratitude and thankfulness for family, Nevada Wildflowers, Nikon, Purple, Purple Loosestife, Thankful, Whatever Wednesday, Wildflowers25 Comments

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Thank you all for the support, and kindness you’ve given me these last few weeks. I appreciate you and your comments so much. 🥰

I wish you all a wonderful Independence Day Week-end!

Purple Loosestife wildflowers

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Whatever Weds.- Riding High

May 28, 2025May 27, 2025Posted in Photography, Transportation, Whatever WednesdayTagged Bicycles, Penny-farthing, Whatever Wednesday46 Comments

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Penny-farthing

This bicycle was popular between 1874-1886.

They’re fun to see ridden but, they were fast, and dangerous. With the exception of the railways nothing was faster on the roads.

They were dangerous because the risk of falling was great. Heading over the handlebars was problematic. So makers tried making the handlebars so riders knees could clear them. They had design changes that included reversing the large and small wheels but, that proved dangerous as well by being thrown off the bike backwards when going uphill.

It got its name from the size of its wheels-the front was large like the British penny, the smaller back wheel was the farthing.

The Penny-farthing fell out of favor when the safety bicycle was invented in the 1890’s.

I saw this bicycle and a few other odd ones in Sonoma, CA back in 2011.

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Whatever Weds. A Mother’s Tender Touch

May 7, 2025Posted in Whatever WednesdayTagged Horses, Nature, Whatever Wednesday, Wild Mustangs43 Comments

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Whatever Weds. Happy Halloween!

October 30, 2024October 30, 2024Posted in Autumn, Holidays and Observances, PhotographyTagged Autumn, From my Neighhborhood, Halloween Decorations, Spooky, Whatever Wednesday18 Comments

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Nikon D850| Nikkor 35mm| PS CC

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Whatever Weds.-This & That

October 16, 2024October 16, 2024Posted in PhotographyTagged Birding, Comet C/2023 A3(Tsuchinshan-ATLAS), Daybreak, Emerald Bay, Fall Colors, Halloween, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, Pope Beach, Red-tailed Hawk, Sunrise, This & That, Whatever Wednesday57 Comments

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What a week it’s been! It all started on October 10th, 2024.

My neighbor and I rose early to head up to Emerald Bay for sunrise.

The color was earlier than we hoped so, we made a quick stop at Pope Beach to shoot the color and daybreak.

Then we made our way up to a lookout over Emerald Bay to photograph the lake.

Then we took our time making stops along the way home to photograph some Autumn Color.

We saw a beautiful Red-tailed Hawk hunting for breakfast. She caught a Vole but, I won’t gross you out with those images.

Later that evening I saw the Northern Lights for the first time ever. That post is here. It was glorious.

Friday morning I birded with my usual birding group and we had a great morning seeing 40 species of birds. Along with the birds I noticed some spooky Zombie Pirates lurking by the pond. Here’s one.

Saturday morning I was up early and met up with two girl friends to do my first Big Day. It’s a 24 hour global birding marathon put on by Cornell Lab of Ornithology. We didn’t sign up as team or register our day but we, birded from 8AM until after 4PM. I saw 45 species. It was pretty fun day. We posted our sightings on ebird.org so they’ll have our record for their counts and information. Unfortunately, the next afternoon I got sick, and shortly afterwards I was hearing from my companions from the day before that they where also sick. We think the deli we stopped at to have lunch is where we picked up food poisoning. I brought home half my sandwich which I shared with He-Man and yep, he got it too. UGH.

Monday still weak, and very tired I was determined to locate and see Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) but, I wasn’t in shape to drive anywhere so I just stepped out on my back patio and photographed it there. It’s so cool and it has a great long tail!

What a week! What a month it’s been so far! The Aurora, and the Comet really made my month. Everything else has been icing on the cake.

My tummy is still sketchy, but I’m on the mend and so are He-Man and my friends. I plan to be out photographing Halloween things, birding, and maybe the Comet with a better composition soon. I hope your week is going well. Oh, and watch out for the Zombies and Ghoulies! 👻

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Whatever Weds. Tawny Pennant

September 25, 2024September 24, 2024Posted in Insects, Nature Photography, Whatever WednesdayTagged Dragonflies, Insects, Nikon, Pinellas Co Florida, Tropical Pennants, Whatever Wednesday26 Comments

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I was recently in Pinellas County, Florida visiting my Mom and Step-father and I did some birding too. While birding I always keep my eyes open for other things in nature like this Dragonfly.

I think it’s a Tawny Pennant-Brachymesia herbida. It’s in the Tropical Pennant family. If I’m wrong and you know what it is please let me know!

I think he looks like he’s wearing an early pilot’s helmet, eye goggles, and smiling at me. Hamming it up for the camera I suppose.😊

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