Moonlight

I think I liked this picture the best from tonight, something about the composition and positioning of the tree trunk.

That said, I like this one because you can clearly see Orion over on the left, Jupiter shining through the branches just to the right of center, and the Pleiades cluster in the lower right. That’s not a bad amount of detail for a handheld iPhone picture.

Overall tonight, the moonlit landscape and clear (and cold) sky was just amazing. If the back yard wasn’t a landscaping nightmare right now between the droughts and gopher holes all making it look like no-man’s land, I would have loved to have gotten a blanket or two and just laid out there looking for a while.