One of my favorite things about the weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas is the abundance of foggy mornings. This morning it was a light fog, hugging the ground, with blue sky visible overhead. Beautiful.

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I've run out of clever titles for blog posts about moon photos. Maybe I should just number them? 

Enough of that, let's get down to business.

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More photos from Thor's gotcha week. In other news, I'm wondering if the casual use of digital post-processing makes us worse photographers.

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Here are a few pics I snapped of Thor on his Gotcha Day. The quality isn't the best...I was more concerned about enjoying the day than with camera settings. Still, I think you can tell that he's super cute and super fluffy!

Shasta likes her new squeaky toy; she is startled, fascinated and annoyed by his every move.

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Last night's full moon was a supermoon, 14% bigger and 30% brighter than an average full moon. Sadly for me, the cloud cover in the Puget Sound Convergence Zone cleared so late that the moon was already high above the horizon, so while I could see that the moon was, indeed, bright, I lacked a good frame of reference for it's size.

I still took some photos, mostly just so I could say I did but...they're nothing out of the ordinary.

I used the same settings I had used on my previous moon photos. I didn't think about it at the time, but I probably should have made some adjustments to accommodate the extra brightness of the supermoon.

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I'm still amazed at the amount of detail I can achieve with my Nikon 5100, even with my mediocre photography skills, from 20 to 30 feet with a zoom lens. If I thought I could have set up my tripod without scaring the ducks, I could have achieved sharper focus for better results.

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Despite the fact that I had snow on the ground - again! - this morning, spring is almost upon us. A sure sign in our neighborhood is the appearance of Donald and Daisy Duck.

We've lived in this neighborhood since November of 2003 and each spring has seen the arrival of Donald and Daisy. They fly in, stay a few weeks and then move on to who-knows-where. Today I snapped a few pics. They let me approach to within about 20 feet and I used my 55-300mm lens zoomed in all the way. I'm going to try to make it down to DeYoung's this week for some feed. If they have reason to expect a handout, they'll come right up to me.

While it's true that I live on a very quiet street, I still wonder why Daisy thinks this particular spot at edge of the road is a good place for a nap.

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