3:00 AM in Paradise, California

The moon is growing full now and a thirty second time-exposure at night makes it look like daytime. Enjoy!

Sky Pictures and a Spotted Towhee

Here are nine recent photos from the Nikon P950. There are three cloudscapes to begin with, then the Spotted Towhee, a large sparrow, hunting in the brush, followed by a jet contrail headed northeast and correcting due north, and a close-up of the plane creating it (a Southwest airlines’ Boeing 737) above 20,000 feet. A

In the Skies of Paradise – A Pictorial

The Sandhill cranes are migrating, and came over yesterday. Please enjoy these four images of the recent skies of Paradise.

March Moonlight in Paradise – A Pictorial

I took the first three photos just after midnight today, and the fourth one this evening about 9:30 (Nikon P950). I have long been enthralled by the bright moonlight here – so otherworldly. Please enjoy!