Day 105 ~ Shoot the Moon

Day 105 ~ Shoot the Moon

Apr 15, 2014     

My first: I witnessed a Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse.

One of my Facebook friends posted that there would be a lunar eclipse at 2:46 a.m. Bingo! There’s a “first” if I ever saw one. I set the alarm on my phone for 2:40 a.m. and got my camera and tripod ready for the big photo shoot.

I went to bed and tried to get to sleep as quickly as possible because I knew my night’s sleep would not go uninterrupted. It was 1:00 when I awoke. I looked out my window and my backyard was brighter than usual from the moon’s glow. I went to my deck and saw a little piece of the moon “bitten off”. It started. I “shot the moon” until I got a satisfactory photo. Then I went back to bed to warm up and catch a few more winks until my alarm went off. I woke up at 2 and noticed the backyard was dark. Off to the deck I went to see the progress and to take more photos. Then back to bed to warm up again. I lay awake until the alarm sounded. Now the moon was reddish and I was snapping away…trying different settings to show off the moon blushing.

After I completed my wee-hour photo shoot, I lay in bed thinking about what I just witnessed. I thought about my year and all the different things I’ve done and how I’ve changed because of them. Before 2014, my life was like the moon we see month after month; now my life is the eclipse and I embrace the intervention.

When I awoke in the light, I went to the window. The moon and the moment were gone. The memory and the meaning are not.