OMG!!!!! Trip--those photos are mindblowing! That first one is so amazing. Do we live in a miracle or what???
Michael, I feel like I could just reach up and touch the moon in that picture.
So I have two pictures--each with a funny story. The first I dedicate to Sepher because of his squirrel affinity. My persimmon tree is like a wildlife feeding station this time of year and when I was watching this little squirrel I thought, I'll grab my camera and try to take a picture like Michael does (most amazing wildlife pics ever). So, I'm old and I can't see very well without glasses up close but I can't see with them far away--so something always gets screwed up with my photography. I took all these pictures and when I put my glasses on to review them I was in hysterics because they are kind of like squirrel porn. Basically I have some amazing shots of what I thought was a squirrel's asshole. That was bad enough but when my son looked at it he said,"mom, I think you need to stop calling it a he and that thing we are looking at is a hole but not the one you think it is." I said, "You mean I have been taking pictures of squirrel
vaginas???" LOL! Can I be arrested for having those on my computer? Anyway, here is the mammal and the orifice in question--you decide.
The second story is that, as usual with holiday pictures, they are mostly lies. Here I am looking like the hostess with everything together, right? The table is set, the candles are ready to be lit--everything looks effortless and calm. In fact my Thanksgiving disaster this year (there always has to be at least one) is that the brining bag that I had the turkey in broke all over the kitchen floor and in the middle of all the other panicked choreography of cooking a meal for 10, I had to put on my rainboots and mop the kitchen floor about 8 times.
the good thing is that the brine that I soaked the turkey in had orange in it so the house smelled extra good.