Tag: Moon

  • Full Moon Hangover

    Full Moon Hangover

    Did you see the full moon last night? Spectacular! I snapped this photo of the moon illuminating a cinematic moonbeam extending from Vermont’s Green Mountains to Rosslyn’s boathouse. It was a breathtakingly beautiful prologue for the full moon insomnia that Susan and I experienced last night (and the full moon hangover that I’ve been enduring…

  • Crescent Moon Haiku

    Crescent Moon Haiku

    Sometimes it’s the little things. Often, actually. Like this slender sliver of a crescent moon tipped sideways, a celestial smile. Like this volute capital — atop one of two ionic columns flanking Rosslyn’s front entrance — glowing warmly from the pendant light hanging above the stone landing. Like that improbable glow silhouetting the trees despite…

  • Sturgeon Supermoon

    Sturgeon Supermoon

    “The moon, the moon,” I enthused, as we were sitting down to dinner last night. “I’ll be right back.” I headed out onto the front lawn with Carley, unwilling to miss the spectacular moonrise over Lake Champlain. Turns out that beauty is known as a sturgeon supermoon. The sturgeon moon got its name from Native…

  • Green Mountain Moonrise

    Green Mountain Moonrise

    Smart phone photography (i.e. “iPhonography”) inevitably includes some limitations. But the biggest upside (that in some respects outweighs many of those limitations) is its omnipresence. The mid-July moonrise in this image — a martian mime lifting up out of the Green Mountains, a fiery moonbeam searing the surface of Lake Champlain, a blurry silhouette observing,…

  • Moon Over Lake Champlain

    Last night’s moonrise over the Vermont foothills (south of the Green Mountains) was absolutely sensational! The moon started out fat and orange as it made a dramatic appearance. My bride and I first spied the moon over Lake Champlain while driving home to Essex from Willsboro after dining at Johnny’s Smokehouse. Breathtaking. And elusive because it…