These first two pictures obviously are of the gorgeous full moon. It was wonderful to be at the beach during this time --since we had such great views of the moon that week.
There is something so interesting about seeing the moon surrounded by clouds. George took this one from our balcony one night... Neat, huh?
Here is another picture of the moon with the clouds around it. If you look at the clouds, you can almost make out some different shapes. I see a dog's or cat's face, above and slightly to the left of the moon. What do you see?
We didn't get outside soon enough to see the total lunar eclipse, but we did get to see the partial eclipse--after the moon was moving out of the earth's shadow. During a lunar eclipse, the Earth lines up directly between the sun and the moon, so there is no direct sunlight to hit and reflect off the moon's surface. During the total eclipse, you cannot see the moon at all because it is hidden by the earth's shadow.
The only light that reaches it is 'filtered and bending through our atmosphere'. That gives it the color of "all of the world's sunrises and sunsets" together. It was awesome to see.
Here is one more picture of the moon as it moves out of the earth's shadow. The total eclipse lasted for 72 minutes and the entire eclipse lasted for about 3.5 hours. We only saw about 10 minutes of it --since it was 4:07 a.m. Eastern time when we got up. YAWN!!!! ha... Well---even if it was in the middle of the night, we are both glad that we got up and saw this rare happening.
Hope you enjoyed our moon pictures as much as we did. We think we picked a perfect week to go to the beach!!!!
Hugs,
