Lunar eclipse
The weather’s great, I have a lovely view from the roof of my office.  Alas that I forgot to bring a) my binoculars, and b) my slightly better camera.  My iPhone just won’t cut it.
So I’m just watching with eyeballs, and storing it in actual memory in my head, instead of outboard electronic device memory. I’m not watching continuously — just popping up to the roof intermittently. There’s one place to stand where the various rooftop structures neatly block the glare from all the safety floodlights. Not true dark-sky, but darker and very pleasant.
Not tonight, but a previous, cloudy night that was nicely eerie.
Whenever I see a total lunar eclipse, when the moon turns red I spend a moment pretending it’s actually Mars. Sigh.
I’d like to thank everyone for all the encouraging comments on the last two posts. It’s great to know that people are reading my books, and new people finding them, and that there’s so much enthusiasm about upcoming books!
In the meantime, I don’t think there are many possible excerpts or out-takes left, but when I find any, I’ll put them up here.
