early gifts of the new year

The wolf moon, also called the old moon, or moon after yule

Happily our skies were totally clear in the east this afternoon. I was not going to miss this moon rise! I went out onto the front porch to take the pictures above.  I used my trusty Canon SX120 with nearly full 10X zoom, so the farm below the moon appears quite a bit nearer than it actually is.

And here is the moon rising just a few moments later caught through the kitchen window. Still a bit of zoom so the moon would appear obvious in the photo, but not as much zoom as the others.

And the sunset was silently glorious: no fanfare, no trumpeting clouds,  their brassy edges burning.