The Hunter's Moon illuminates the world tonight, In an ethereal light that illustrates in back and white, Orion rises in the east alright, Signaling that it is a winter's night, Smoke wafts leisurely from chimneys aglow, Telling of faith and hope and warm hearts, Christmas light color the dark, The cold invites one to snuggle in a handmade quilt, With a beloved old pet by the hearth, Sipping hot toddies that warm the bones, Wondrous is the clear winter's night. copyright, by me....

"I'd give the moon if it were mine to give" -the Yardbirds, "For Your Love" A thought: if you could do anything with the moon, anything at all, put it wherever you wanted, decorated it whichever way, what would you do with it? I think I might sink it into the Atlantic for a wee little bit, just to see the ocean shine from the inside! Of course, my 'magical moon powers' would allow for the moon to actually shine after being plunked into the ocean. What a silly morning! Shelly

Thanks KT! Pusswillows are more of a cooler climate shrub or tree. For good details on moon I used my birding lens, a 70 - 200 mm IS and a 2X converter, which brings it up to 400 mm, of coarse a larger zoom, like 600 or 800 mm would be better but these lenses are about 3 X more money. Konrad

We've got a city water 'key'...tool to turn the water off at the street. Helps to have had a BIL who worked for the water department. The last two houses we've had, have had iffy house shut offs at the house. One was obscured by new heat pump duct work and insulation in the basement. This house has one right outside the kitchen that is easy to get to but I don't quite trust it to shut off all the way and DH or my plumber can just go over the hill in back to the street below and turn off the water at the meter. Yes, the moon is beautiful tonight. I had thought fog might cramp our viewing but its clear and shining brightly.