This
morning at 5:00 am the full moon dominated the western horizon, only ten
degrees or so above the tree line. The early spring full moons are often
spectacular, when there is still snow cover on the ground and the air is yet
humidity free. With warming temps, it is tolerable even at this hour to be
outside to enjoy the pre-dawn splendor of the setting moon. Its light reflected
to such a degree off the snow pack, that I could have easily read a book.
This is
after all the worm moon, which is particularly ironic this year, as I am quite
certain that the normally turning worms are feeling sluggish in the still
frozen ground beneath the snow.
Typically,
we’d recognize the reawakening of the Earth, in part by the turning of the soil
done by the voracious worms within. Or, we would see them by the hundreds
strewn about on our paved roads after an early spring deluge has flooded the
ground.
No such
rains this year. Not yet. Maybe next week. We celebrate the moon all the same.
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