The holiday weekend ended, but my flight back to Colorado from San Diego was not scheduled to arrive close to 1am.  With this in mind I tried to maximize my sleep on the flight and decided if the conditions were good enough head east of the airport for the final photograph of Thirty Days 2009 on the way home.

With a near full moon I made way out and used some roads I was familiar with to grab some images at around 2am.  The quiet night with a slight chill in the air and mostly calm wind helped, but after about 30 minutes the chill and late hour steered me home. I was able to captured some images using around a 20 second exposure showing the quiet night.

Full Moon on the Plains