Everything Looks Different at Night - Day 14

Full Moon Rise Through Clouds    

The Full Moon Rise   

- happened on a cloudy evening    

Sometimes the thing you weren't expecting is nicer than the thing that you were hoping to have. I was prepared to photograph the fully illuminated disk of the moon, instead I was surprised by the loveliness of shape-changing and color-shifting of the moonlight refracting through cloud layers.   

Birches and their Neighbors - Day 16

Moon and Birches

Almost-Full-Moon-Rise Through Winter Birches  

- with a diffuse glow of color through clouds 

Watching the moon rise majestically and slowly above the horizon is such a relaxing thing to do.
In the summer, these birches are in full leaf and they block the lower sky. It's only through the bare branches of these trees in the winter that the moon can be seen at such a low angle.
And the light, yes, it is bright enough to read by.