Since I had been disappointed the night before as to the weather-guessers’ assessment of what constitutes a good reason to go outside and look at the western horizon, I resolved to keep a “weather eye” on the sky and this coming night looked promising. We still had the smoke from all the western forest fires hanging over us and clouds that looked promising, so promising that they threatened to obscure the entire sky at times, but I had hoped they would thin out a bit towards sundown. And they did. Naturally those that predict the weather and fail, made no mention of the potential of going outside and viewing a pretty sunset, they instead were giving warnings of the potential for rain so they advised to stay inside and Be Safe!
The night before, while flying my drone, I noticed it had developed a twitch in the device that controls the camera. At first, I thought that the drone was mocking me as I have developed twitches of all sorts of late, and this is just the sort of thing that boys do to each other when they notice a weakness, weird behavior or even an odd colored shirt, in one of their buddies. A familiar behavior, of sorts. One that is normally cured by a slap to the head, but not something you can do while the offender is 200 ft in the air.
Here is what it did while landing the night before.
Tonight’s mission would be one of pictures, not video, so I had hoped that whatever had been causing the twitch would calm down enough to get some still images at least.
Here is what I saw when I got to altitude.
Here is a few minutes later.
Here we are looking South. That little bright thing, top, center, left is the moon.
The sun has finally set.
Just before I ran out of battery and have to land, here is a final look.
It is an amazing wonder to behold and it brings to my mind John 1:1-5. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men. The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.
Seek the LORD while He may be found; Isaiah 55:6 Our only hope is found in Christ, turn to Him and be redeemed!