By chance, a friend called and invited me to take a look at his new mountain bike. As I stepped out the door, around 8pm, I expected it to be bright with moonlight as it has been the last few nights. Instead, there was a sickly dim light and the moon looked red with a spot of normal whiteness. Oh yeah, the eclipse... neat!
It's a tad blurry... but what do you expect when standing 236,000 miles away (give or take ~15,000 miles). Actually, I think I did a pretty good job at snapping the photo since I was holding the camera by hand.
About an hour later, all was normal. I was commenting to a friend that in the olden days, this event might have spawned some sort of superstitious act. For a moment, I imagined myself hunting down any suspected witches to fix this. Or perhaps sacrificed something or someone precious to appease the moon deity. Or, my favorite, take this as a sign from Mars (the old god with the spear, bad attitude, etc.) and suited up for some sort of conquest.Ah, well... since most of those things are kinda frowned upon, I'll just settle for howling softly at the moon and trying to get the dog to copy me.
Ow-ow-awoooooooooooo.........
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