Strawberry moon:
There was a harvest moon, which was a full moon in the fall when you could work in the fields far into the night, because the moon came up just as the sun set. And there was a water moon, which was a moon behind low clouds suggesting the hope of rain. By now, however there is a cottage industry of inventing or digging out old accounts of various kinds of full moon. The latest I have heard of is the strawberry moon. Time was, a strawberry was a superficial contusion, but as time has gone on we can now actually afford real strawberries; I wonder if boys still get strawberries.
So tonight there is a full moon as well as its being the summer solstice. The two events have no direct astronomical link so this should happen about 1 out of 28 years. The headlines are calling this a “once in a lifetime” event. Don’t expect us to live very long, do they?
Meanwhile I am still splugging away at the lab and a write-up and have been neglectful of this site. I’m sorry. Thanks for coming by anyway.
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