Window screens are normally just a little visual noise that we ignore when looking outside. But when a window screen catches the light from the flash, it asserts itself and becomes an object to be viewed.

Different days bring variations in weather and light. Compare today’s image with Monday Sunrise from two weeks ago. Both were taken at about the same time from about the same place looking across the same pasture.

“Grant that all who share this bread and cup may become one body and one spirit, a living sacrifice in Christ, to the praise of your Name.” (Book of Common Prayer, “Holy Eucharist II,” p. 375)

Perhaps the elements will con-spire to bless us with rain today.

One of the features on the Moon is called Mare Spumans, or Foaming Sea. This image looks a little like photographs of the pockmarked surface of the Moon, but it’s just whipped dish soap and water in a Fiesta bowl. You can use the larger bubbles as magnifying lenses to see the bubbles beneath them in the froth.