Perigee Clouds

 As most of you know, the full moon was at Perigee the other day.  A morning or so later, I drove to work and this is what I saw, only, lighter and further away...ah, but I love photo programs.  I tweaked it and the color above is what you get when you try to show the details of the moon.  It was huge.  But, since this is Wednesday, I decided to tweak it a little further.

OK, here's what it REALLY looked like.  See, it just doesn't pop, plus it was taken through the windshield.  Here in Washington it is illegal to use you cell phone while driving...I'm PRETTY sure it doesn't say ANYTHING about large SLR cameras...

 Then, today, I came home from work and saw all these wonderful clouds making their way across the sky.  I paused near the apple orchards and took a photo or twelve.  None quite looked right, until I tweaked it...

 I like the simple lines of this building.  I suppose if I got out of the truck it might look better.

 and, well, I can't improve on this one!

I taught fifth graders today.  It was a good bunch.  I'd never subbed for them before, but many of them knew me.  I went ahead and went through my spiel ( you know, "you can call me Mr. H, Mr. Awesome," etc.), and they got a kick out of that.  Then, when we were walking through the halls and some kids from another class said, "Hi Mr. Awesome!!!"  I waved at them without turning.  I heard one boy in my class whisper to another, "He really IS famous!"  It's things like that that make me smile.

Chloe slept better last night!  You have no idea how nice that was.  I think we both got more rest, but then we  may have gone the other direction, worrying about NOT hearing anything...yeah, we just can't win.

She has a bad habit of standing on top of her rocking horse.  We have been addressing this issue trying to wear her down.  We have resorted to a time out chair.  This is what she looks like after she has stood up on the horse and we put her on the time out chair...