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Still Saturday

February 11, 2012 By Sandra Heska King

Hushed by the moon hanging big in the western morning sky.

Going deep.

Deeper.

Deeper still.

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  1. Jennifer@GDWJ says

    February 10, 2012 at 11:06 pm

    Oooo …

    You’re doing some deep-seeing here. I like.

    • Sandra says

      February 11, 2012 at 7:23 pm

      This blew me away. Not sure I’d ever seen it like this–especially in the morning.

  2. S. Etole says

    February 11, 2012 at 12:07 am

    Entranced by that same moon.

    • Sandra says

      February 11, 2012 at 7:23 pm

      Love the idea that we all see the same.

  3. kd sullivan says

    February 11, 2012 at 7:54 am

    Swirling cyclone of snowflakes…I wonder if I can walk with God and be no more in the midst of them.

    • Sandra says

      February 11, 2012 at 7:24 pm

      Beautiful.

  4. Lyla Lindquist says

    February 11, 2012 at 9:15 am

    Lane offered to pull over last night for me so I could get a shot of the low hanging, orange moon.

    It was cold last night. Too cold even for me.

    Seeing your bright moon smiling this morning, I regret staying in the car.

    • Sandra says

      February 11, 2012 at 7:24 pm

      I have a lot of regrets. I hate to think of all I’ve missed.

  5. Megan Willome says

    February 11, 2012 at 9:43 am

    It was quite a moon. Unfortunately, when I saw it I had a dog leash in each hand, so I couldn’t take a photo. Even if I did own a camera.

    • Sandra says

      February 11, 2012 at 7:25 pm

      We need to get Megan a camera. 🙂

  6. HisFireFly says

    February 11, 2012 at 11:16 am

    love.love.love that He shows us the same sights, the same love…

    • Sandra says

      February 11, 2012 at 7:26 pm

      And each time it’s different. If we’re looking.

  7. Linda says

    February 11, 2012 at 11:21 am

    I have been gazing at that moon, wishing I could take pictures like these Sandy. Thank you.

    • Sandra says

      February 11, 2012 at 7:26 pm

      I was surprised how they came out. Thanks, Linda.

  8. Nancy says

    February 11, 2012 at 1:21 pm

    This moon has captured my attention over the past couple of nights. I’ve seen so many others comment about it on Facebook over the past couple of days. I think it’s seriously cool that, although we’re in different places, we’ve all been together in admiring this amazing display of God’s handiwork.

    Of course, I didn’t even try to take pictures. So glad you did.

    • Sandra says

      February 11, 2012 at 7:29 pm

      I haven’t actually seen the night moon. Guess I should stick my head outside.

      I love that we can all come together to see, too.

  9. linda Glaz says

    February 11, 2012 at 5:07 pm

    So very beautiful!

    • Sandra says

      February 11, 2012 at 7:30 pm

      🙂 🙂

  10. Lynn Mosher says

    February 11, 2012 at 8:31 pm

    So awesome, Sandra! Love your mooning! (ahem LOL)

    • Sandra says

      February 11, 2012 at 11:45 pm

      Ha! You’ve been mooned.

  11. Diana Trautwein says

    February 12, 2012 at 1:30 am

    Your new commenting system does not like me very much. LOVE these pictures, however. Did you actually shoot them as such, or did you crop in the edit? Remarkable if your camera brought you that close. Remarkable even if it didn’t. And you must be a morning person – cause I’ve never seen the moon in the morning. :>)

    • Sandra says

      February 12, 2012 at 8:32 am

      But I don’t have a new system. You did, however, for some reason need my approval this time, and I don’t know why. Weird.

      This is how the photos came out. I uploaded them to Picnik (which is going away–bummer, so I guess I’ll be forced to learn Photoshop) and did an autofix, which simply cleared some of the gold cast in the sky and brought out the blue on the last two shots. I took these at about 7:45 a.m.

  12. Janet Macy says

    February 12, 2012 at 4:10 pm

    Beautiful post and pictures. It was a beautiful moon.

    Something about looking at the moon makes me feel so small and yet it always fills me with a sense of awe over our Creator.

    • Sandra says

      February 12, 2012 at 5:30 pm

      That He created a universe that operates perfectly, spins the moon perfectly around us, spins us around the sun. Boggles. My. Mind.

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