Moon

Here is my photo of the moon through a telescope… I held my little canon 990 near the eye piece set it to “night shot” and got this…. not bad for someone that has no idea what they are doing and no way to mount the camera. It does look as if the moon is a half cookie, the shadow edge goes to black too quickly to tell it is a shadow. But you can see the craters.

I set my little digital on the macro setting (looks like a little flower) and the night shot (looks like people with a star behind them) then just put the camera lens up near the telescope lens and held if with two fingers, made sure the moon showed up on the screen and snapped the shot. The flash goes off but not into the lens so it doesn’t matter. Trying to turn off the flash made the shutter stay open to long and ended up with a blur.

Setting Sun

Just a post to see what this new picture post url thing does. Of course I will have no idea if I did it corectly. :)

More Javelinas / Peccaries

Two Javelinas with two babies

The babies are just too cute.

Mom seems to have had enough of our photo session and has taken the kids home

Funny Little Wren

This little cactus wren cracked me up yesterday. He is showing off because someone scared him away from the flower pot plant tray where he was getting a drink.

And here is the meany that scared him off…. a big old thrasher.

But little wren is still all worked up about old thrasher taking his spot. I don’t know if this wing display is suppose to make him look bigger or what… no matter to the thrasher he didn’t pay any attention to poor cactus wren at all.

Big Ol’ Lizard on the Wall

I saw this big lizard hanging out sunning himself on the back wall.

He is really quite lovely with all his neat colors. I think he might be a Desert Spiny Lizard.

http://www.reptilesofaz.org/Lizards-Subpages/h-s-magister.html