Turkish Moon & other interesting musings...

We capped a delightful day beneath a Turkish Moon. It was a sliver of a moon with brightly shining Jupiter to 'our' south of the moon (just like you see on the Turkish flag). An interesting sight to behold! We spent the evening enjoying the beauty of Tuscany in "My House in Umbria"--it brought back many wonderful childhood memories of many different summers spent in Italy as we took a month-long swimming break between our double swim season years each year we lived in Europe. What awesome memories we have of Italy. It was nice to have a couple of hours to remember them, via this beautiful movie. After we departed Umbria, we returned to our night sky--this time wondering where our slivered moon went. We couldn't find it anywhere in the sky but we could see hundreds of stars and a handful of planets. How incredible! Summers in the Pacific Northwest are awesome!!!

Interesting things we've experienced over the past couple of days. Yesterday, we awoke to see a falcon perched on the deck railing just a few feet outside the kitchen window. A few days before we'd enjoyed observing an eaglet in a nearby aerie; I checked on the aerie driving home from work on Thursday and our eaglet friend had flown away. :( As we headed down to the beach yesterday we came across a parakeet just perched on a railing along a trail. It was absolutely beautiful. I presume it was somebody's pet who'd snuck out of his home. He wasn't at all afraid of me (or the children) so it's probably quite likely he'd been a pet. Then, on my 70 minute run early this morning, amid the fog hovering over Puget Sound, I spied a sea lion doing somersaults in the water. Then, I caught a band of raccoons sneaking into somebody's backyard. This area is certainly full of life--of all sorts!!!