The Super Blue Blood Moon did not look like this from the second floor bedroom of our Westwood, Kansas home. There were branches. There were other houses.
It was setting (at totality) about the time the sun was coming up on the opposite horizon, so
we only got to see the Frog eat the Moon, but then he ran away with it, below the horizon.
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| This moon looks way cooler than ours did--but I'm still glad we got up for it |
It was still
totally worth getting up for. For one thing, it
wasn't cloudy! We had a total eclipse of the sun in the Kansas City area last August, and
it was totally socked in and raining at totality, where we were. So we saw it get dark. We saw the 360-degree sunset. But we barely got to use our solar sunglasses at all.
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| Somewhere up there a solar eclipse was happening. Very frustrating. |
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| The cloudy "wrap-around" sunset, mid-afternoon August 21, 2017, taken without the proper filter so it doesn't look as red as it did in real life. |
I've been pretty busy, these past few weeks, but
some things just must be taken time for. The main thing I've been doing is
making a final push to finish my novel. If all goes well, I'll be done by Sunday with this part of the writing.
And presumably,
the Frog will give us the Moon back tonight.
IMAGES: The gorgeous photo of a previous (September 2017) Super Blue Blood Moon, by real NASA-affiliated photographer Dominique Dierick, is courtesy of Sky News. Thank you! The two "Alleged Eclipse" photos are ones I took last August with my trusty iPhone 6, at my friend Marna's farm.
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