full moon fantastic

i have many favorite things.  more than anyone else i know, and definitely more than oprah.  but the moon is one of my most favorite things of all time.  i love them all - waxing gibbous, waning crescents, new moons, blue moons - but nothing is more beautiful than a perfectly full moon.  from the yellow-orange hue of a rising harvest moon to the crisp white of a full winter moon, full moons are simply breathtaking to me.  there's something about the moon that's so comforting; like a dependable old friend that's there day in and day out.  

here's a photograph from yesterday's full moon taken from outside my front door.  

and that same moon again, except this time taken by a camera through a proper telescope (and not by me).  too bad canon doesn't make a pocket-sized one of those.