Roots and Blues

at 10:05 We were in our basement diong some laundry and cleaning some plaster off one of our putty knives when the phone went off. Our old rotary black phone. "Hurry run outside the moon is turning red." Carolyn, Ellie's mom, wanted to go and see the eclipse. So Ellie and I ranb outside in shorts and tights and shivered in the sigle digit cold and watched as the moon slowly turned orange and red. Saturn and some other planet glowing close. It was an amazingly cold and clear night night and it seemed to heighten the senses and give them a a focused crisp feeling. We pulled out our camera and turned it to manual so that Ellenoir could show me how to work a real camera as we tried to find the correct f stop number and shutter speed to capture what niether of us had seen before, that is according to our faulty memories. After about half an hour of running inside and out we returned to our computer and enjoyed sifting through the dozen or so photos that we had taken in order to get one that we enjoyed enough to put on the family bog. the next eclipse should be in 2010 if the radio connected correctly to my ear.