I’ll always be grateful for having dogs in our lives. They’ve kept me connected to the night sky whether from the ‘last call pee trips’ before bed or the thankfully seldom wee hours of the morning ‘I’ve got the runs’ trips. Probably TMI there! During the last pee trip on July 31st, the sky […]
Category Archives: Full Moons
August Blue Moon
Created with Paper 53 app on my iPad, plein air between 7:45 and 8:15 pm last evening. Lucked out with having the moon appear between two thunderheads, which eventually swallowed up the moon. Thanks, to friends Lee Kline and Ann Thompson Nemcosky for letting me know that this was a Blue Moon of the ‘seasonal […]
Super Strawberry Moon
The weather forecast called for a thunderstorm at 8 pm but, at 7:45 the eastern sky was somewhat clear and I wasn’t going to let the dark clouds building in west deter me. There was a moonrise to paint! I was also excited to try out my new plein air setup. I’ve been wanting to […]
Spring Tide, Super Moon and Tonic for My Soul
If the sky were completely cloudy and I had lost track of what day it was, I’d still know that either a new or full moon was about to happen. Why? The Spring Tide. This is the name for the tide that occurs at the time of the full and new moon and is 20% […]
Full Flower Moon… a Supermoon
Memory sketches Last Friday evening while walking the dogs along the cart path on hole 17, the rising moon stole my heart. The high spring tide captured the reflection of this supermoon. When we returned home, I recreated the scene on my iPad using the Paper 53 app. I created the image on the right first, […]
Jupe and the Moon Encounter
Y’all know I love keeping tract of celestial events 🙂 Thankfully the sky was almost clear… Even better, atmospheric ice crystals created a huge ring around the moon as if to celebrate the closeness of these two heavenly bodies. I sketched the 6:45 pm and 10:30 pm views plein air, but in a different sketch […]
