Kevin J Moriarity

There was a super blue moon tonight. It's the second full moon in a month (hence the blue moon) and it's super because it's about 20,000 miles closer to the earth than normal. There won't be another one for 14 years and who knows if I'll be around to see that one? So, we drove out west to Dick Young Forest Preserve to watch it rise and try and get some pictures. None of my moon pictures turned out, but I did get one of a tree that looked pretty cool. Even though my pictures flopped, it was a gorgeous night and it was worth it just to sit there among the crickets and frogs to watch the moonrise.

 On Sunday I attended Geneva's Concours d'Elegance car show. (Stupid name in my humble opinion, but a pretty great car show) The weather was perfect and even though I got there a half hour before it officially opened, there was already a big crowd. There were a lot of really expensive cars in the show: Lamborghini, Ferrari, Bentley, Rolls, but I tend to gravitate to the American cars and quirky little sports cars. 

 

 It was a beautiful morning here in the Fox Valley are of Illinois. It's going to get really hot later in the week, but today was in the 60s and breezy -- perfect weather as far as I'm concerned. Looking west from the Geneva Metra station Metra commuter to Chicago. There's a large group of people at the station because of the Air & Water show downtown today. This and the rest of the pictures are of Metra's F59PHI locomotive.

I thought the clouds looked interesting this morning. Lately it's been cloudless or a dull uniform gray.  Summer is ending, at least for the kids. Around here they start school next week. Some people say summer goes so fast, but I think all time goes fast. I wish I could figure out how to slow it down!   

I've been writing and talking about writing scams for years. Here are more heartbreaking stories from an article in the most recent copy of Poets and Writers. One guy lost almost $800,000! Please, if you are contacted out of the blue by someone who claims to be an agent or publisher with an offer that is too good to be true, be skeptical. As soon as they ask you for money, hang up, delete their email, just cease contact!  Read the article: https://www.pw.org/content/scams_bait_selfpublished_authors

 I head out Saturday mornings to a coffee shop here in town. I usually bring my camera just in case I run across something interesting.  This is one of my favorite views. It's looking northwest from a park near my home. The cornfield belongs to Mooseheart. I like the spacing of the five trees. The same view in December of 2022. Engstrom park. The five trees are to my left. I like the shadows and the dappled sunlight early in the morning. The farmers market in Batavia is pretty busy. These people are crossing what I call the "Peace Bridge" from the west. Still no good looking tomatoes today though -- too dry early in the summer? The Peace Bridge (probably not its official name) from the Wilson Street bridge over the Fox River.