A Super Blood Moon

As is widely known, last evening’s so called Super Moon also treated us to a Blood Moon total lunar eclipse in the bargain.  A sufficiently infrequent event that I was positively salivating at the prospect of using multiple cameras to get both a time-lapse and still images. Then, just this week we got word that Cathy’s brother Steve Zeisler had selected yesterday, Sunday, September 27th…

A birthday present for Rea

My mom, Rea Close, was born on March 4, 1905 in, or near Chappell, Nebraska.  I say near, because my grandparents had a farm.  Grandpa was also a banker, so they may well have had a house in town.  In either case, it is a very small place, (2012 population 943; 13 square blocks) in the SW corner of the state, located between the…