Posts from the ‘Moon’ category

Moonlight tortillas

I am a morning person.

With the exception of the few times – as in I don’t need all 10 fingers to count – I’ve needed to catch the dark-o-clock flight out of Glacier Park International Airport, I haven’t used an alarm for morning wake up in over 18 years.

I am up with the chickens and neighborhood rooster in the morning and typically in bed and asleep before 9:30 at night.

But tonight, I was making tortillas at 8:00.

The last tortilla went in the skillet at 8:20.

There are a dozen tortillas in those towells. Eleven will make it into the frig and freezer. I always eat one hot tortilla, fresh from the skillet. Tonight it was wrapped around Black Forest Ham and enjoyed as I prepared this post and remembered the making.

I rolled tortillas, watching the one in the skillet, flipping/removing to the warm towells…with the kitchen windows open and the cool night air wafting in. Such an unusual time for me and such an unusual experience of light, of dark, of air and sound.

When that last tortilla was done, I took the rolling cloth outside for a shake-off…

…and saw the moon.

The second full moon of August

Slightly more than 1 hour before the moon reached its fullest, Bear and I went down the road home in the Jeep to watch that nearly full moon set over a just cut wheat field. It was 45F: cool, clear and beautiful.

I was almost 14 when Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon and today his life is to be remembered. When the moon is full and large on the horizon, it seems further away and harder to get to than when small and high in the sky. It was an incredible time when man walked on the moon and what an adventure – even for me, watching safely from earth. To see not only the moon, but the photos of earth from the moon: a different perspective.

The last day of August 2012: the second full moon. Happy Friday!

Half way back to full

Last night (Thursday), just before 9:00 … Bear and I were out for our last walkaround. A breeze in the top of the trees and everything else quiet: one of those moments that makes me still and aware, savoring everything: Bear with me, the beautiful night, the sound and feel of the woods and the moon – half way back to full.

Waning of the first August moon

A favorite site in the eastern sky – this morning, just before 6:00 a.m. as I went out with Bob and Bear.

This first August moon wanes to begin again and become full before the month is over.

A very happy start to birthday week!

First full moon in August

August, my birthday month, has two full moons this year.

Bear and I went down the road in the Jeep to watch the moonrise.

I watched for the moon to rise while Bear watched the setting sun.

Just after sunset…first full moon in August.

It smells like Christmas…

It does!!

The large hail brought down bits of the ends of branches – live bits with fresh sap. A LOT of live bits with fresh sap. The sun hit them today and suddenly it smells like Christmas :) !

It was just before 1:00 p.m., temperature about 74F – almost July and it smelled like Christmas walking down the driveway to get the mail.

Hey, Bob! Dontcha’ think it smells like Christmas??

What??? Oh, yeah…if you say so…it smells like Christmas.

That means it is time for my “long winter’s nap”…

And see, there is the moon. Lights out.

Well, it DOES smell like Christmas.