Last night I noticed the crescent moon shining behind the bare tree limbs. A rather subtle, yet pretty, sight.
Next I saw a pink contrail going through the bluish-purple early evening sky. A decidedly dramatic sight.
Then I saw the condensation trail almost intersecting with the rising moon. This created an unusual configuration of accidental manmade beauty + intentional autumn simplicity. An unexpected sight, to say the least.
THE SPECTACLED BEAN 
Not one comment? Hmm. This is why I hate to post on Sundays. No one is ever around. No comments takes the fun out of blogging.
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Only just got the time to sit down and read! Little man is finally in bed. I love the sun reflecting off the vapour trail. I love when the clouds are uplit in a similar way so they look fluffy and pink. I like winter sunsets for the same reason, when it’s really searing cold and you get that lovely blaze of colour. Fab photo.
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Polly, I like winter sunsets, too. The sharp contrast of light and dark makes for such unique scenes. This one last night really caught me by surprise.
[Thanks for commenting, btw. I wasn’t complaining exactly. More like muttering to myself about the one thing that I really dislike about NaBloPoMo: Sunday posting. It never works for me and my readers.]
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I’m here! And I love the photos. Is the jet exhaust called a contrail? I never knew that! We see them a lot around here since we have an AF/Army base about 5 miles away.
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Margaret, yes, contrail is short for condensation trail. They’re also sometimes called vapor trails. We don’t see them too often around here, let alone ones that are pink. Kind of fun.
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Hey there! Just got on. Love the pictures. You’re really becoming quite the photographer. These remind me a lot of my scherenschnitte cuttings that I used to do–the intricate cuttings of black paper silhouette against a lighter background.
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Beth, you’re so right. These photos remind me EXACTLY of your scherenshnitte cuttings. Those were so cool, but probably cost your eyesight doing them! Thanks for commenting.
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Love the natural beauty you caught and shared. Very nice!
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Cheri, thanks. Just a flukey moment in time. Totally unexpected.
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How beautiful. I love that you have an eye for it. This world is so full of loveliness if only we have the eye to see it.
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Relyn, you’re preaching to the choir here. I agree.
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We’re just late. That last photo makes me think that we’re lucky whoever was aiming at the moon was a poor shot.
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Zazzy, I really didn’t mean anything about people with that comment! I didn’t say what I was thinking very well. See? Sunday? This is what happens to me. I’m not meant to be a Sunday blogger.
And you made me laugh there. Do you suppose that the pilot was aiming for the moon?!!
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I think time was just moving more slowly for you yesterday 🙂
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Sure. I can go with that explanation! Thanks Polly.
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I’m with Zazzy…I was thinking if this were one of my daughter’s sci fi books, it would have been an asteroid, and it would have hit the moon and pushed it closer into our orbit, and pretty much ruin things. Actually, that exact thing DID happen in a pretty darned good YA trilogy. Here’s a link to my review of the first 2. Quick, yet good reads. http://jellyjules.com/?p=1203
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J, thanks for the book reviews. I see that these books are available on Kindle, so when I get my new eyeglasses I’ll read them.
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Or your new Nook…don’t miss the third book in the series, either, though I didn’t link to it.
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Good thinking. I’ll get all three books at once then I’ll be committed to reading them. You are just a wealth of good ideas today! Thanks.
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