Friday I ate chocolate mousse for my birthday. Two days later I saw a moose munching on willows by a creek and posing for photographs. The moose was backlit and the sun shone into my lens making a huge blue flare (which I cropped from these images).Why care the moose was too far away across beaver ponds and creek? Distance with a moose is probably a good thing. Ok, I admit I did deplore the abundance of sunlight from a difficult direction.  But, I’ve met a moose and it made me smile. I smiled at a moose and she may have smiled back at me. Happy.