The Moon Was Flirting With Me Just Now...

(Not tryin' to make you jealous, Gnomey Sweety, but for the reals!)

I'm waiting for some programs to download here at work, and there were no readings to be taken or anything, so I stepped outside for a smoke break.

AND THE SKY WAS AWESOME!!!

There are places on this Earth that are still not over-urbanized so much that the skyscrapers crowd out the sky from view. Austin is one of those places.

So I walk outside and just happen to look up...

...and the sky was this majestic blue-black (not actually "blue-black" but imagine the darkest shade of blue possible just before it becomes black) and these luxurious mountains of gray clouds were drifting lazily across it, framing this intensely bright full moon!

It was ridiculously breath-taking!

You know how you're not supposed to stare directly at the sun or it'll burn your retinas? Well this was a retina-scalding moon!

And one mountain of a cloud would slowly, playfully drift in front of the moon, then slowly drift past, revealing the moon like a bride lovingly disrobing on her honeymoon night, making a meal of the revelation of each forbidden swell of her flesh for her new husband.

And this intensely shining moon dis AMAZING things to the colors of the sky! It highlighted the soft, gray mountains in a lighter shade of gray, turning the bits that passed before it this silver-blue.

And you remember how you used to draw the sun when you were a child, with yellow lines emanating from it to depict the sun's vibrant rays? Well this moon actually has blue-white rays emanating from it! Only they're not those even rays that we drew shooting out of the sun when we were kids; instead it was more the way Medieval artists portrayed an almost star-like protrusions of white light from some holy object!

Naturally, I can't even TOUCH this sight with my pitiful description. I considered, for half a second, grabbing my camera and trying to take a picture, but I've photographed the moon before, and I knew that my camera is completely incapable of coming CLOSE to conveying what the miraculous human eye can perceive!

But I had to try to capture this in whatever pathetic way I can, because such an experience needs to be shared!!!

I couldn't keep this to myself!

I had this glorious areal landscape all to myself, and I felt guilty hording it!!! I mean, east-to-west, north-to-south I had this 3-D Omnimax diorama of quiet majesty bathing my eyes and mind and soul, and I just SO wish you could have been here! Whoever you are, whenever you're reading this from where ever, I wish you could have seen this astounding view!

(And, naturally, I wish my Gnomey-Goddess were with me to see it, hehe! If if she were, we'd probably still be making out in the parking lot, adding our passion to the foreground of this amazing work of natural art. And it probably wouldn't have occurred to me to rush in here and write this, lol.) ;)

Okay, back to work. Tonight's my busy night.

PEACE!!! :D