Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, Sis!  (And everybody else born on this day!)  This is your day's sunset, painted by the master painter for your birthday card!!!

Desert Moon November 10, 13

   
     

We had a clear night, the moon was up, and I have a handy point and shoot camera!  So we got this!  Pretty nice for a simple point and shoot.   You can actually see the craters.  Somewhere I read that you can get great shadows when the moon is at this stage! I tried it and I did!  Click on the photo, full size shows those craters much better.  (Clear weather helped too!)     

Almost Perfect Light!

Sometimes the light, the clouds, the shadows and the butte line up in an almost perfect composition.  This is one of those times!

Midas, Nevada Mrs. Brown's Place

This is what is left of Mrs. Brown's place.  It was thoroughly fenced when I was kid.  She was a ferocious old thing and deaf in the bargain.  Not open to having drop in visitors  be they kids or adults.  Perhaps a left over from the years, during prohibition, when she was reputed to be one of the better brewers of various forms of white lightning.  There is a tunnel, probably caved in now,  that leads from her place to just a bit up Midas Canyon.  Also supposedly used in her whiskey transactions. 

This cluster of old buildings is perhaps the most authentic of all the buildings in the old town since the Midas School burned down.  Photo thanks to Helen Moore, my friend, who was up in the area hunting.

Changing Light

Sometimes the sunset touches the mountains with red and gold.  Shadows add contrast to the color.  This play of light and shadow continues all day and even, with a cooperating moon, at night.

A Hint of Winter

Snow on the mountain.  A good time to have coffee and think of good reasons to stay inside.

Blue Mountain Skies Turn Red

Not much blue on Blue Mountain!
I love these sunsets.  They are never the same.  Each is incredible.  Each is different.   Even more amazing.  I don't color edit these photos.  This is the color that banded the sky last evening.  Not for long, but long enough for this!