LOOK, UP IN THE SKY.

House arrest is a little easier to take when the skies are clear and the planets are putting on a good show.

Mercury more favorably placed for viewing than Venus, 23 May, 9.19 pm.

Saturn and Jupiter bracketing the moon, the whole works playing hide and seek in the clouds.
28 August, 10.33 pm.

Mars is making the transition to being up all night.

At high enlargements, there might be a green dot which is Uranus showing up; at times a visible planet.
14 September, 11.27 pm.

Check out Naked Eye Planets for much more information on all things orbital and sighting opportunities.  You, too, can calculate when each planet goes retrograde, should you have to chart a course to Mars or come up with the best time to take a life-altering action such as getting a coronavirus shot (just kidding about the latter.)

There was also an opportunity to observe an afternoon moonset.

There's often haze or glare or cloud, and the waning gibbous moon gets washed out around midday.
12 August, 12.13 pm.

Now comes fall and winter.  The leaves are starting to change and the corn harvest is in on the other side of the mile road.