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In the wee early hours of the morning I staggered out of bed, awakened by the moon THE MOON THE DAMNED MOON SO BRIGHT. It’s very rare that the transit of the full moon passes by my bedroom window on a night clear enough for it to be noticeable. Maybe once or twice a year.
Last night was that night.
The moonlight was so bright, I wondered if it had awakened the chickens. (Would they lay eggs at 3AM? Funny moon eggs? Does that ever happen?) Bright enough that the picture I snapped with my crappy digital camera is perfectly visible, if grainy. That’s the chicken tractor beneath the moon and a pair of bright “stars.” (It’s actually Mars at the top, and Venus hung up in the tree branches.)
The tractor is the shiny bit at the bottom of the picture. The shiny would be moonlight reflecting off a blue tarp; my attempt at further weatherproofing the roof.
Crazy, right? Crazier still, when I look at this picture, I think of my entire life up until I moved here four years ago, when I lived in cities, and never saw proper darkness. Everyone deserves some Real Dark, don’t you think?
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I feel like a stalker commenting like 3 minutes after you post but hey, such is the way of twitter and me procrastinating. Moonlight is one of my favorite things in the whole world. It just makes me happy, it’s so clear and crisp and lovely. I miss having true darkness, there’s no where to get it around here except with my super light block curtains
Comment by Melsa —
November 3, 2009 @ 6:34 pm
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I love a good, dark night, even when the moon is super bright. Thanks for sharing your pic with us.
Comment by Tari —
November 3, 2009 @ 6:52 pm
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Real darkness is rare… and a bit unnerving when first encountered. But oh so good for star-gazing.
Comment by kmkat —
November 3, 2009 @ 7:34 pm
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Makes me want to go camping with my buddies and their Iditarod doggies in the UP.
Comment by kellys —
November 3, 2009 @ 8:52 pm
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I noticed the exact same thing last night, and I’m all the way over in the midwest. Well, a stone’s throw from Canada, though. The moon was so bright that everything cast crisp shadows outside. Weird! Eerie!
Comment by Slager —
November 3, 2009 @ 9:55 pm
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My first experience with Real Dark was when I met my husband. He took me to his house, and we walked outside, and there were all these STARS, it was incredible. I’ll probably have to go city again if I get into medical school, and the stars are the biggest thing that I’ll miss.
Comment by ayla —
November 4, 2009 @ 3:04 am
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As you might guess from my screen name, I’m very into the moon. I knew it was full last night, but it was cloudy here in Toronto, so no moonlight.
I love going up to my country place on a friend’s farm and seeing the stars at night. Total darkness with some coyotes howling is pretty wild!
Comment by Northmoon —
November 4, 2009 @ 5:05 am
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that moon was called the Beaver Moon. At least that is what the news person told me.
Comment by sharon —
November 4, 2009 @ 7:17 am
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Absolutely! As much as I love living in DC, I do miss occasions of absolute stillness and darkness. Maybe that’s why I’m going camping in freakin’ November this weekend.
Comment by danielle —
November 4, 2009 @ 8:48 am
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“Funny moon eggs?” Good blog name. Funny, obscure, but has a story.
Comment by Ryan —
November 4, 2009 @ 11:40 am
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Real Dark was disconcerting but my word, the stars!!!
Comment by Carrie K —
November 4, 2009 @ 2:37 pm
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This reminds me of something I read in an astronomy book, how when people who live their entire lives in cities sort of freak the hell out when confronted by “real dark”. Like how after the San Francisco earthquake, the power was out, and the police kept getting all of these emergency calls from people about the Milky Way. Evidently they had never actually seen it, and thought it was some horrible astronomical disaster either brought on by or having caused the earthquake.
Comment by Sara L. —
November 4, 2009 @ 7:18 pm
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In the immortal words of Liz Lemmon, “I want to go to there.”
Comment by Whendi —
November 5, 2009 @ 3:18 pm
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