Soooo, Yesterday I Might Have Been a Little Bit Cocky about what I Thought I Knew

Yesterday, I showed you a picture of the moon, and what I claimed, without really researching it at all, was the planet Venus.  I then attempted to show my mad internets skillz and talked about the history of calling Venus the morning star.  You can imagine my surprise while I was walking this morning, I looked up and saw this greet me from the east.

The Moon and not one but two planets (I assumed), but which
one is Venus  (I hope) and what the heck is the other one

This shook my confidence in my assumptions from yesterday, and it should have.

After capturing the shot for today's missive, I set out to try to determine if I had guessed correctly yesterday, and to determine what the other celestial body was cluttering up my eloquence with facts.  These folks at earthsky.org helped me clear up my ignorance.

It turns out that I, very luckily, correctly identified the planet Venus that appeared to the lower left of the moon as Venus.  Today, the planets that greeted me just before sunrise were Jupiter (the one on the lower left today) and to the upper right was Venus.

I suggested yesterday that I thought one should not let school stand in the way of education.  I guess it's time to add ignorant assumptions as potential impediments to my education as well.  Live and learn...walk and keep looking.