Our planet is reflective. The oceans are like great wind-wrinkled mirrors, but it's the atmosphere that makes us glow. Air splices sunlight into monochrome strands. The Moon crescents its way across the calendar, its nightside tinted by Earth. This is called earthshine. I catch it one night while walking by the sea.

I pause, surprised. All wishes and worries fall aside once in a blued moon.

(Image credit: M Taha Ghouchkanlu via NASA)

(A/N: What do you think of the pictures? Yay or nay?)