Just Photos: a Journal by Srinivas

So, the moon was prowling the Western skies this evening as usual, flaunting his rugged features. He noticed this pretty, bright stranger, Venus, in the neighborhood. His knees went weak and his heart skipped a beat.  He had to befriend this Goddess.  He presented himself and made his best overtures. Venus had seen many a moon in her day, and wasn't impressed.  Besides, there was room only for one bright celestial being in the neighborhood, and she sure wasn't going to let that be this craggy, crescent shaped rock. She spurned him with no compunction, and the moon slunk away, wounded and whimpering in the disappointment of rejection. Venus, the haughty Goddess that she was, now the brightest in the neighborhood, befriended some lesser beings in the neighborhood and ruled over her own domain. The end.

The clear night afforded good views of the big dipper (Ursa Major) in the Northern sky right from the front porch.  This is its journey over 11 minutes from 10:15 - 10:26 PM. This is the very first constellation I learned about as a kid in the Boy Scouts decades ago, and it is fun to see it on the move.