A fluffy black and white cat lounges on a patterned couch.

Store Window Kitteh

A bright white celestial object against a black background.

It was breathtaking to see the bands of Jupiter’s gases which cannot be seen in this crop of a photo of the giant and its Galilean moons as observed through the eyepiece of my telescope on a moderately cold Christmas night from a light-polluted city by the 45th northern parallel, as I tracked the bodies through a narrow view of the sky, affording me a few seconds of photographic opportunity between manual adjustments of the scope, taken by shoving my iPhone’s camera flat onto the maximally zoomed eyepiece while trying to minimize the effect of the shaking of the raised patio caused by nearby road and railroad traffic.

Colorful Christmas light decorations on a house featuring a glowing snowman and reindeer.

Merry Christmas!

Making Karahi Chicken

Silhouettes of bare trees against a dramatic, cloudy sky.

And the clouds come rolling in

A bridge partially visible through dense fog above a row of bare trees.

Bridge to Fog

A distant snow-capped mountain under a clear blue sky with a pale moon.

Satellite Over Mt. Hood

Silhouette of a person wearing a cap and holding a smartphone against an orange background.

Fall Profile

Four people sit on a rocky cliff overlooking a mountain range.

Rattlesnake Ledge

Canada geese gather on a carpet of fallen autumn leaves under yellow trees.

Stroll.