Occulted Moon...

But we gave it a shot.  

Gaillardia, still somewhat gay.

No moon here.

In honor of the exceptional moon, we went with neighbors Dave and Sylvia out to the Whitewater industrial park, where we could find an unobstructed eastern horizon. We found it, but blocked by a rare occurrence of cloud. I turned the camera to the west, where the sky was clearing, but saw little evidence of moonrise there.

Even a cloudless rise would have been, however, not quite like a moon over Mudge.