I awoke around five this morn­ing and glanced out my open bed­room door to see the full moon along with Mars. It was so love­ly I jumped up in the chilly predawn to take some pic­tures. This became more involved as I need­ed to use a tri­pod then need­ed to add a step stool to get the cam­era to a height to include the San­ta Bar­bara har­bor. By the time I got every­thing set up and had tak­en a few shots to under­stand how to con­fig­ure the cam­era the moon was set­ting, then gone in a last shot or two.