DWHonan's photostream  

The rattle of the grain barrel lid is a clear indication that dinner is being served, and Lois is eager to be first to the bins.

Headlights from a passing vehicle bring to life foreground elements as mist rolls in across the distant stables. Faintly echoing across the pastures are occasional whinnies and kicks of hungry, impatient thoroughbreds.

Late on a stormy summer afternoon, Deseret Power Railway Units 1, 2 and 3 sweep past acres of sage brush and exposed outcrops at 27 Mile, about halfway between the Utah border and Bonanza Power Plant. The railroad and a power line are the only signs of alterations made to the Earth's surface by humans that are visible in this view of Coyote Basin.

A half-hour or so before sunrise, the first light of a new day casts warm colors onto the clouds and mist of a cold, humid Seattle morning. In the foreground is the I-90 bridge spanning Lake Washington between Mercer Island and Bellvue; in the distance are the iconic radio antennae of Queen Anne, and at left the Space Needle pokes its distinctive peak above Capitol Hill.

Most (if not all) folks in the Northwest who tried to shoot this morning's lunar eclipse at moonset against a recognizable background had their plans spoiled by overcast skies, but those in Seattle who were dumb enough to wake up at 5am were still able to at least get to see the ongoing eclipse. At 6:15am, I captured the moon hovering high over Seattle; the clouds would shortly thicken and completely obscure it from view.