Javier Torok

Ushuaia Digitalis, 2010

Colors of the Moon : What color is the Moon? It depends on the night. Outside of the Earth’s atmosphere, the dark Moon, which shines by reflected sunlight, appears a magnificently brown-tinged gray. Viewed from inside the Earth’s atmosphere, though, the moon can appear quite different. The featured image highlights a collection of apparent colors of the full moon documented by one astrophotographer over 10 years from different locations across Italy. A red or yellow colored moon usually indicates a moon seen near the horizon. There, some of the blue light has been scattered away by a long path through the Earth’s atmosphere, sometimes laden with fine dust. A blue-colored moon is more rare and can indicate a moon seen through an atmosphere carrying larger dust particles. What created the purple moon is unclear – it may be a combination of several effects. The last image captures the total lunar eclipse of 2018 July – where the moon, in Earth’s shadow, appeared a faint red – due to light refracted through air around the Earth. Today there is not only another full moon but a total lunar eclipse visible to observers in North and South America – an occurrence that may lead to some unexpected lunar colorings. via NASA

Ok… I won’t

Ok… I won’t

Un coeur en hiver, 1992

A Heart in Winter (1992)

Fashion Plate ca.1864

Victorian Home Interior

Victorian Home Interiors

Extract from ~ Bare Witness by Richard Martin and Harold Koda, 1996.

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* The Hoopskirt Society will be praying for peace in the Ukraine and for the people there, so we will not be posting this week, in a moment of silence for the very real horror that is war. Thank you all..*

Going Away Dress of wool & silk worn by Elizabeth Holms-Kerr after her 1899 wedding to John Deans Hope.⁠⠀Made by Madame Hayward, 64 New Bond Street, London⁠⠀Glasgow Museums, E.1988.104.2

Leanne Hatch