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crocus photography

winter solstice

12/21/2020

 
great conjunction ∙ jupiter & saturn

blue moon

10/31/2020

 
blue moon october planet mars
mars

jupiter

6/7/2017

 
damselflies. butterflies.
comphrey flowers
comfrey (boraginaceae) - flowers
brewer's blackbirds. northern flickers. red-headed sparrow (house finch), blue sparrow (mountain bluebird), elegant sparrow. robin fledglings. 2 owls.
jupiter
chives
blossoms
lilacs
magpie chick

pasque flowers

4/4/2015

 
pasque flowers
... several days of crocus blooms. bonus, a total lunar eclipse at dawn goddess, Ēostre-Ostara, so a weekend of number 3 tetradiness and plenty of bluish purple flowers. apr 1 was first sighting.

computus: ecclesiastical full moons; council of nicea. first council of nicea. easter-ostara is on the first sun day (Sól, diēs Dominica, Ra Day) after the paschal-passover full moon on or after mar 21, a fixed date, spring equinoxish on gregorian calendar. on julian time easter is apr 12. sister sun, brother moon. sun-Sól (sunday) is the sister of brother moon-Mani (monday).
their father is Mundilfari, one of Saturn's (saturday) 62 moons. newton said the moon falls every day.
arctic sage
wild sage sprig
newton said the moon falls every day.newton said the moon falls every dayit's anemone-windflower-buttercup Greek ἄνεμος-anemos Cold Wind Day, with pasque and a few airy snow flakes. the plant has deep roots. ploughing disrupts its fungal partners. kinnikinnick-bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi) was green in march. ermine was white in january. magpie is collecting twigs.

halfmoon gulls, dusk

3/31/2015

 
spiders overnight. one or 2 or 3 morning strands. there are bugs to be caught. flocking halfmoon gulls, dusk. the calls. and orion in your face, hot blue, and lower in the sky, a tall eternity, feet in the horizon. soon. buds. palm dots. ural false spirea, sorbaria sorbifolia 'sem' (rosaceae) est un fils de noé, attracts butterflies. a moon with Thor-Jupiter & Regulus-Alpha-Leonis.
α Leo/nis: 1 of the brightest stars in the night sky, constellation Leo, a multiple 4 star system arranged in 2 pairs.
jupiter
jupiter & α leonis (regulus)

purple snow

11/17/2013

 
purple snow @purpledawn and full moonsets—tinsel, glitter, frost.  the parlour palm is at it again.
snowdrifts, blizzards. chipmunk (or a red squirrel). white, white hares with charcoal ear tips. the deer, mice, bluejays,  chickadees, owls, coyotes, ravens, 100huddled geese, northern flicker, crows, skunks, porcupine. lots of tracks and a sundog.
Picture
moon, 13 october 2013
comet ison is not to be seen.

a bit of a snow storm

4/15/2013

 
again. this one is a blanket. there have been granule flurries, light rains, pellets, ice crystals in the air, drizzle and mist (last week), fogs and winds. 
sun, ice crystals
sun - ice crystals
with a few clear days. what is blue? a 2013 project: taking a shot of the full moon every month, which adds up to one group of 12 moons, in a year of comets. it's been too overcast.
full moon, jupiter jan 26 2013
january 26, 2013, moon and jupiter
that was the one & only one, so far. just as well. the frost is trippy.
besides.
April snow.ers
bring May flow.ers

jackrabbits: their backs are smoothing in colour, like grey carapaces.

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