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Winter Solstice Eclipse

My current Sarracenia collection will soon be eclipsed by the up and coming seedlings. Here’s a shot of only …. like… 2 flats. Many other flats strewn about here and there. Good times.


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Yesterday mornings lunar eclipse was pretty phenomenal. Granted I only saw bits and pieces of it in between the cloud breaks here, but what I saw was pretty cool.   Below is a crappy photo. It was too windy to get a decent shot without the camera on the tripod moving a little.

I was still pretty fortunate to see a portion of it. The last one according to many sources was 372 years ago. Check out The Weather Channel’s site for instance. If you missed this Winter Solstice, not to worry, next one will be 12/21/2094. Work on your garden until then.


[Just getting the end of the lunar eclipse. Clouds, fog , and drizzle rolled in shortly afterward.]


[The bright thing in the upper left third of this shot is the moon. Clouds rolling in…]

Autumn Equinox – 9.23.2010

Hello Autumn. Nice to see you again.

Man — after a long day at the office, it was so nice to be greeted by a wonderful full autumn equinox moon tonight. Came home and my wife baked a fresh pumpkin pie. Oh man. I am feeling very autumn-y!

The equinox marks a shift in season — where both night and day fall roughly into equal lengths.  The “harvest moon” refers to the when the autumn moon is at its brightest, when the farmers would work by its light to bring in the harvest…  I wasn’t doing any harvesting tonight, but rather doing a lot of watering.  Tonight the harvest moon and autumnal equinox fall on the same date – and this won’t happen, I’m told until another 19 years in 2029.

I just took this photo a few minutes ago; it is a photo of the autumn harvest equinox moon from my deck.

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When I think of autumn (Sarracenia wise), I think of leucophylla/leucophylla hybrids, seed pods, and the seed pod harvest …and speaking of harvest, I did a little bit of harvesting  a couple of days ago.  Here’s a quick mosaic taken with photos from the handy dandy iPhone reflecting some of this…

eqnox[Clockwise from top left: group shot | S. leucophylla ‘Hurricane Creek White’, division  from a seed grown plant before the HCW site was destroyed | Handful of Sarracenia pods  | A pocket full of fresh harvested pods in envelopes to extract seed later. Yes – Cargo pants come in handy in situations like this.]