Scattered Thoughts . . .

A lthough I happened to finish my antibiotic for my recent sinus infection last night, today was a day of very poor health! My sinus infection is clearing up but I fell asleep on the couch before I could make lunch today.  I slept straight through to dinnertime.  So, I slept four to five hours this afternoon which is double the amount of time I normally nap each day.  I was exhausted and couldn't keep my eyes open.  Plus, falling asleep before lunch is exceptionally odd.  Sleeping straight through to dinnertime is even odder.  To make matters worse, missing a meal almost always results in anaphylaxis for me.  Systemic mastocytosis is brutal and unforgiving of even one mistake. Considering the amount of cold medications I was taking since before Christmas but had stopped taking days ago, I should be well rested already.  I slept a lot while I was recovering from the sinus infection.  Theoretically, I should be feeling pretty good today so feel...

W hile Sheila and I were discussing our upcoming Amtrak journey with Lukey and Kenzie, I had to dig through old photos to figure out something about a previous Amtrak trip.  (That's one of the advantages of shooting so many photos and keeping them stored on external hard drives...  they become records of all we do, when we did it, and where we were located at a specific time.) During this search for Amtrak photos, I scrolled through all of my photos from 2018 and 2019.  In one of these daily folders, I found a photo of the moon that I don't think I had shared previously so I figured I would share it. I purposely rotated this image for a different perspective than we normally see from Earth and I'm liking how it looks.   When I came across this image, I was surprised by its clarity.  As best as I can tell, I think I shot this image through my Explore Scientific 102mm APO telescope and captured the image using my Sony a6000 camera mounted on the telescope's f...