A fuzzy image was all my digital camera could make of last night's lunar eclipse.
The boys and I ran out in the cold for a peek after my dad called at 8:30 PM alerting us to the phenomenon. About 10 PM the wood stove wouldn't fire up properly. I had to dump the ashes. What a blessing.
As I carried the ash tray out under the powerful starlit night, the moon illuminated an orange-shadowed glow as the eclipse evolved through the silhouette of the bare maple branches in our yard.
Had my old SLR camera a new battery, I'd have pulled it out of storage, used my long lens and attempted a better image. Instead, the memory is etched in my mind.
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