Lovely late winter’s day. I spent it all inside, going through my stuff to find out what I could throw away. I found that I had boxes and boxes and boxes of… boxes. Can’t believe how many empty cardboard boxes I’ve kept over the years! When I was done with my sorting, I had my car full of stuff going to either second hand or wasteland. Not to forget that I have a big car these days, so that’s a lot of stuff. The most depressing part is that my storage room doesn’t seem to have any more empty space than it did before. I guess I could throw away even more, but then I got to thinking that these things are still part of my life. I can’t erase my past just because I move from one place to another; I’m not sentimental but I’m still human.

When I was done with my to-do list for today, I started waiting for the sunset. I wanted to have another go at the crescent moon and I was somewhat concerned to see that there was a very thin veil of clouds in the sky, which would make it impossible to shoot the crescent (as yesterday’s experience taught me). But I had to try anyway, and I was happy to see that the veil almost disappeared after sunset. I finally got my crescent! Of course, shooting with a 11-16mm lens, it’s not a big crescent in the picture. But I don’t want to take a closeup of the moon either, because I want to give it a context. There was actually enough light today so I could’ve used the 24-105mm lens instead, but when it got darker and all the stars started showing, I was really happy I had 11mm on the camera. It took in my favourite part of the sky – Orion, Canis Major (Sirius) and Canis Minor (Procyon), Gemini; Capella and Aldebaran, the Pleiades… If these are the last pictures I take in Loos, it’s a good way to end an era.