Have you looked at the moon this week?
By Gina Spadafori
November 6, 2009
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When I was living in rural northern Florida almost a decade ago, there was nothing to see except the night sky. Electronic media was pretty iffy, and although that took some getting used to, I eventually stopped noticing when the cable was up or down and just left the TV off.
My entertainment was the sound of the surf and the sight of the night sky — and a good book, usually. With almost no light pollution — this was really, really rural — the stars were everywhere. Honestly, I never knew a sky could look like that!
Since moving back to an urban/suburban environment, I can’t see the stars anymore. But now and then, I sure notice the moon.
Did you see it this week?
When I saw the above illustration, by Canadian artist Liz Saunders, I looked up at the moon and was back among the stars again. And in the moon, I saw … my girl Heather. Visit the Blazingstar online shop for more.
Oh and … her shop is just a few retriever-related things she put together for friends to enjoy. The scope of her work is much more broad than the contents of that shop.
She’s incredibly talented. !
Comment by Gina Spadafori — November 6, 2009 @ 8:39 am
We love living near a lake in our new home in Oregon! The moon was simply spectacular this week rising above Devil’s Lake! Our cats’ behavior during this full moon - not so spectacular!! Crazy felines.
Comment by Tammy — November 6, 2009 @ 9:16 am
Never saw so much sky, stars, clouds, colorful sunrises, etc. in Boston and surrounding towns as I have outside my Colorado home.
It was drab before with tall buildings and so many rainy days that the sunshine was hard to find, sometines.
I look forward to the full moon every month. I also look forward to the beautiful sunrises in the morning. Not drab at all, but exploding in different colors.
Yes, Heather is running on the heavenly grasses.
Comment by Colorado Transplant — November 6, 2009 @ 10:33 am
Paul and I are lucky in that we live in a suburban/small town area close to shopping and so forth, but yet without much light pollution. Plus the nearby Palomar Observatory asks that people control their light pollution somewhat. So we can sit in our ‘baby’ two person hot tub outside and watch the stars and moon.
Our trainer yard is only four miles away and is rural; when we turn the training yard lights off after evening classes, we’ll see bats fly by and owls. We have a great horned owl who hunts over our yard regularly. He is so quiet and so big!
But to answer your question, yes the moon was gorgeous this past week! And although I didn’t see Heather, I did appreciate the moon.
Comment by Liz Palika — November 6, 2009 @ 10:41 am
Wonderful moons this week, especially at 2:00 a.m. when the Shiba decides she must go potty!
Comment by glock — November 6, 2009 @ 8:36 pm
Her most royal highness is busy telling the sun and moon when to rise and set and in general working her most royal self to the bone keeping order in the universe. They must have needed more help up there so they called in the Queen.
Comment by Verde — November 8, 2009 @ 1:58 pm
Thank-you Gina
xx
Comment by liz @ blazingstar — November 12, 2009 @ 11:54 am