Cool stuff Wolf,

We would go out at night up at Little Glass Valley Reservoir at about 5,000'
and lay on our backs and watch the stars............very special.

Once I was at Christmas Island on a full moon with my brother. We sat
outside our little cottage drinking a beer and watching the moon. It was
real hard to stop and go to bed.

--
Bill Kiene

Kiene's Fly Shop
Sacramento, CA, USA
www.kiene.com

"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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Standing out on the front stoop just now, I looked up at the full moon. I
was facing nearly due east. High thin clouds looked very much like the
ripples in the sand in the shallows of a lake. Something, presumably ice
crystals, between the observer on the ground and the clouds was refracting
the sunlight reflected off the moon. There was a bright white nimbus
surrounding the moon and extending about two apparent diameters of the
moon
all around it. Outside this glowing patch was a ring of barely
perceptible
red.....as near infrared as my eyes could detect. Outside that followed
all
the colors of the spectrum; sort of a rainbow in the round. Outside that
was another complete rainbow and, outside that, a third. Barely visible
in
the white patch were much smaller ripples than those formed by the high
clouds, traveling west to east.

It looked a lot prettier than it probably sounds.

There's a lot of really cool **** in this world......better than T.V. for
the most part.

Wolfgang