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{The Super Moon at the End of the Street}

The Super Moon strikes again!

{Good Morning Giant Coffee ~ Good Night Giant Moon}

{Good Morning Giant Coffee}

Becky and I went to Giant Coffee, a new coffee shop that opened up in Phoenix last week. I think I could go there every day and actually I almost have. It just opened and I think I have already gone there 5 times! It's a great place to take my computer and work. It's so pretty inside and it's in such a great location near the Light Rail and between the Phoenix Public Library and the Phoenix Art Museum and near the Spaghetti Company too! If you like the modern type of architecture they feature in Dwell Magazine, then you would think this place is very, very pretty.  

My breakfast:

Art on the walls of the coffee shop. In the circle of the guitar is a film loop showing birds at a bird feeder.

Flowers were on all the counter/table spaces.

The west-facing entrance of the coffee shop opens completely up with sliding glass walls. So pretty, especially since the coffee shop is right next to a landscaped little park full of blooming desert plants. 

 

{Good Night Moon}

Just like I did this time last year, I photographed my peach tree on the night of the full moon. This time though it was a little later and a little darker, so the images are different. All of these are taken manual focus, about 1/8 to 1/4 of a second. And when focusing, I focused about three feet in front of me which makes the moon look GIANT. 

moon, moon burning bright

I wanted to try to get the light of the moon to make a star-y shape. So this is about f-16, 3200 ISO, about a second and a half and I was resting the camera on a post, but still shaking it a little as I was breathing, so this is what I got...The squiggly line up there? that's a plane.

{I'm taking pictures of the moon tonight}

How shall we beguile the summer, if not with some delight?

 

40 years ago we went to the moon

Two weeks ago tonight, I was driving away from Watson Lake, when for no reason I looked back. I'm sooooo glad I did because I saw the July moon rising, so huge and magical.

Did you see the moon tonight?

 

Moonrise, fairy grass, new peaches on the tree. 

I was so surprised to see the moon tonight. Does that happen to you? The evening that it is full or almost full, the first time I see it in the sky, my eyes pop out, my head swings back to stare up at it, I know I am making it sound a bit cartoonish, but I am always surprised to see it, kinda like....like it's an alien in the sky, a UFO or something, like oh my goodness what is that up there? Oh yes, the moon. Why, Hello Moon!