Today In History...

July 24, 1969…The Apollo 11 astronauts splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean following their spaceflight that landed the first humans on Earth's moon.

Early Morning Winter Moon

These pictures were taken one morning when I was waiting on my ride to come pick me up to go to work. It was a cold winter morning about 5:00 a.m. and the moon was shining across the street. The moon was so full and bright that it just lit up the neighborhood and it looked like late afternoon.

This is what the moon looked like outside my office last Thursday morning with snow on the mountain ridge.

Last Day of November

Leaving the oilfield yesterday these three antelope ran across the road in front of me. Then....


They collected a couple more and ran back across the road...

Then there was another incredible sunset coming from the direction of Georgia...

Then on the other side of the highway I saw this incredible sight. It was the moon coming up in the middle of pink clouds in a beautiful blue sky...

468 Miles - 11/7/09

We headed off on another adventure this morning with the destination being Shell, Wyoming. This is a place we'd been before (see August 24th blog for reference), but since Flat Riley had arrived, we thought this might be an interesting place to take him and get some fossils for him and his classmates. (That would be #4 on the map).

While driving on the interstate north, I spotted the moon still in the sky and took this pictures which I think look incredible.

These pictures were taken to show the lack of traffic on a "major" interstate which runs from Colorado to Montana through Wyoming.

We arrived in Shell with no problems since I didn't take the "Road From Hell", but stayed on the major highways this time. However, we did have to alter our intended route home as there was a big snowstorm coming up over the Bighorn Mountains.