Night Sky

Jen was making dinner.

I was out back playing fetch with Gretchen when I saw this.

It's the moon. It's rising over the brightly colored trees of our yard. It was amazing, though I wasn't quite able to capture that.

I tried.

I tried real hard.

I ran inside and downstairs to grab a ladder.

Just a ladder.

Not the ladder I usually use to get on the roof of the house, but a ladder.

I ran back upstairs, out the door and set the ladder up on the deck.

It was short.

I briefly thought it was too short and I wouldn't get back down as I scrambled up and onto the roof.

"Jen's smart, she'll get me down", I thought to myself.

Across the ridge of the roof I set up my tripod and started snapping shots.

Meanwhile Jen was snapping instructions. "Try the flash. Try the night setting. Try the..."

"Uh-huh" - click, click, click.

"oooh look at that," I turn to see the sunset too - from the roof.

Click, click, click.

Eh. The sunset turned out ok, but the moon rise could/should have been crisper.

- b