moonshine

We had the opportunity to do a little moonlighting while we were in Paris.  Granddaddy borrowed a telescope so we could get a better view and we sat out by the pond one night and soaked up a little moonshine.  
The clouds made it very beautiful.  And it was a blue moon, the second full moon during the month of August, not actually blue, as you can see.  God went to trouble to make it beautiful here, on earth.  Why?  It tells us about who He is.  Function and order are important, but so is beauty.  The earth reflects the glory and the beauty of God and drives us to desire Him.  It drives us to the cross, where we can meet him and become His.

I did a lot of reading about photographs like this.  From what I gather ti's called a ghost moon...and I'm pretty sure it's caused by a reflection from my lens.