midgeling: life in a shoe.

While everybody was getting excited over today's eclipse, I was facing the wrong direction, as usual. Looking back on my day, the eclipse was pretty neat to look at, but I was really taken by the moon setting this morning over the Olympic Mountains in the west. It was about 6:45 am, and I had just returned from dropping Mr Midgeling off at the bus stop. I got out of the car and noticed how quickly the moon was dropping in the sky, and how the large orange ball was turning to a pale yellow. The city was quiet, and nobody was yet running their cars into each other on I-405 down the way.

Everybody was able to get cool hi-res photos of the eclipse. But not everybody was able to get a quick, sleepy-eyed photo of that same moon 12 hours earlier as it was setting over the Olympics - all while trying to find a good vantage point between power lines before the moon lost all of the deep orange glow. That was my job.