Super Moon end to a Super Saturday

The days go too fast; the summer goes too fast, but we pack as much in as we can.  Today was Saturday Market day, so Leann loaded up the car with our limited produce--beans, beets, red onions, and basil, along with some of our choice "fleas" for the flea market table.  I stayed home to see off our B&B guests and then begin the room change-over for our next guests--clean up the kitchen, wash sheets & towels and hang them outside, clean room & bathroom so it's ready to go again.

And Saturday is Dump Day so I was off to bring our garbage and recyclables to the dump.  On the way I stopped at the Port Bar with a couple of Leann's baby quilts for the benefit dinner and raffle for one of our Port Wing residents this afternoon and evening.  Then I stopped at the Saturday Market and spent our market proceeds on some cucumbers, tomatoes, a turnip and some dill.  By next week we should have our own cucumbers and tomatoes!  I told my California daughter today that I was watching for cukes and tomatoes and she laughed, suggesting that we must live up in the Northwest Passage!  How soon she forgets!

Anyway, now to the pictures.  First are a couple from my monarch chrysalis watch, then some baby milkweed pods.

I saw this one last Saturday for the first time and it had a couple dark spots on it.  Now today it is all black.  I think it will be hatching out tomorrow.

This was the first one I saw back when it was all green with the gold band.  Yesterday it was all black and today all that remains is what's left of the white shell.  So...I missed the big hatching!

Here are the little milkweed pods growing out of what used to be the beautiful and fragrant flowers that the bees were so crazy about.  The leaves are chewed up by all the caterpillars.



And tonight we all get to see the Super Moon, or in astronomical terms, perigee-syzygy or perigee full/new moon.   This is our first view of it tonight over in the town of Herbster, seven miles east.

Then I turned around and saw our Super Lake and a beautiful sunset.  The Lake has been hazy lately and the sunsets have been extra nice thanks to the smoke from forest fires out west in Canada and our western states.

Then we came back to Port Wing and brought our visitors to Quarry Beach where we saw the Super Moon from there with a Super reflection.

We planned to enjoy the Super Moon from the deck tonight but the mosquitoes had other ideas.  And this time of year is supposed to be the peak time to see the Perseid meteor shower but the moon is so bright and you can't see the stars!  Astro Bob suggests going out just as the moon is setting...and that's just before dawn...gotta think about this...