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Today is Pi Day: March 14 : 3.14 on the radio dial!

Views like that are extraordinary when you are fortunate to be in the moment to see them.

I set an alarm (02:30AM local here in Ohio) so that my Borzoi and I could watch the Blood Moon and howl together when it reached full eclipse. It was amazing.

It was high in the clear sky at 1 AM Chicago time, and quite impressive.

NOTE: did you change a setting or something? Name/URL stopped autofilling, and I get a security warning when submitting.

So many pictures I’ve taken of “spectacular” views have failed to translate to 2-d.
I grant I am not a very good photographer, but surely…

I’ve always found the sunbeam shafts of light fascinating.
Grew up Catholic, those beams cast on some holy figure, or a holy knight in a battle as depicted in art always come to mind whenever I’m lucky enough to see something like them in real life, especially when they highlight something dramatically (alas I’m not fast on camera phone draw).

But you can catch some real drama weather here in Tejas, so one of these days!

And today, it’s like someone pumped gray chalk dust in the air and then tossed a 40mph wind behind it.
Normal forever visibility is down to under a mile.

@Rich — The change I’ve seen is that I can no longer force my browser (Opera) to use http instead of https for sweasel.com. I used to be able to override that but I can’t any longer. The result is that autofill is deactivated and so I also get a warning message when I fill in my name and email, and another one after I hit the Submit button. This is mildly annoying.

But what is really annoying is that the sweasel.com server refuses to have anything to do with me when I’m using my VPN (ExpressVPN). I have to turn off VPN, do whatever I want to do here, and then turn VPN back on when I leave. This is HIGHLY annoying.

But I doubt there’s anything that Stoaty did to cause this change, and likewise I doubt there’s anything she can do to fix it. Seems to me it has to be under the control of her hosting people.

I got up to go potty about 0300 because I’m that old. I came back to bed. Was just snuggling back down when the hubby felt the need himself. He came back and announced “well, you’re up, I’m up…we should go take a look.” And so we did. Pretty cool, actually! Nice red color! We stood outside in our robes for about 15 min and then hubby looked at me and said “ooooh, ahhhh…let’s go back to bed.” We were both sound asleep about 10 min later.

Fertdad used to have some screw-on filters for his 35mm cameras sixty years ago. Pick the right one and the clouds will really stand out sharp and impressive.
Of course I don’t remember the kind of filter.

@Oldfert, there were 4 filters if my addled mind remembers correctly. Yellow, green, red & I wanna say blue, but that doesn’t feel right. I used blue filters for balancing the too orange warmth of tungsten photofloods on color film. The filters blocked certain colors from showing up or others to stand out on black & white. Don’t remember which did what tho.

Regardless, Paul Simon said it best: Everything looks worse in black and white…
Bonus points if you remember the song title.

“When I look back on all the crap I learned in high school”?

Nah, just kiddin.

Kodachrome.

Makes ya think all the world is a sunny day, oh yeah.

It was Kodachrome, right? Or am I remembering just a recurring word in the lyrics?

I may be misremembering this, too, but I believe it’s the yellow filter that makes clouds pop.

I have a military AA gun sight (Bofors…75mm model 1929…I only mention this because it took me 3 years to track down the artillery piece it came from and I’m bragging on my sleuthing)
Anyway….
It has a color filter dial for specific sighting/light conditions, one of which is a yellow filter.
You’re not miss remembering Uncle Al it’s to improve contrast.
Sight was made by Zeiss and has an interesting ( okay, for some) history.
I figure if there’s a serious purpose for a yellow filter on a lens this is about as serious as it gets.