I have terrible equipment for capturing celestial phenomenon (a 17-40mm), but my not-so-inner geek always pulls me out into the yard. I’ve caught meteors, rainbows, and even the northern lights (rare for SC), and tonight I got two more — a lunar eclipse and a moonbow — only 90 minutes apart.

It was pretty cloudy in Mt. P, so I quickly snapped the moonbow shot at about 7:45 thinking that was that. I caught brief glimpses of the eclipse, and then at 9:15 there was a relatively clear patch. I took a few shots with my wide angle gear, but focusing was nearly impossible. Still, the moment was captured, and along with the moonbow record a wild 90 minutes up there.

Despite the fact that catching a blue-tailed skink may have given my cat feline vestibular disease, he fearlessly brought one up on the porch yesterday. The boys and I immediately captured and documented it with photos. I also learned that these are technically called 5-lined skinks.

It’s not fog, it’s smoke! And it’s back?!?!

What gives…this is so weird. It’s not suppose to look like this at 5 p.m. It’s suppose to be clear and delicious. Instead, look at these shots from 526. The first one is looking down the Wando River at the Ravanel Bridge. You can’t see anything but a little bit of Danial Island on the right. It looks like a morning commute in December, not an afternoon rush hour in May. So it goes…

We have wet, warm winters down here, and it’s common to see all kinds of celestial activities. On December 2nd, I caught this circumzenithal arc in the late afternoon sky.

Though past it’s peak in the photo, you can still see the tell-tale bending towards the sun, with the red band on the outside. It makes me want to kick back and think about this crazy physics experiment we call home.