On Tuesday, October 14th, the full moon rises in these parts at 6:00 p.m., but the sun doesn't set until 6:26 p.m., so the moon will be well up before it gets dark and might look much like it does in this photo.
On Wednesday the moon rises at 6:29 p.m., just a few minutes after sunset.
Then on Thursday the still robust waning gibbous moon rises a full half hour after the sun sets at 6:24 p.m. We'll hope for clear skies these next few nights.
Here is a John Haines poem I love. I hope you like it:
If the Owl Calls Again
at dusk
from the island in the river,
and it’s not too cold,
I’ll wait for the moon
to rise,
then take wing and glide
to meet him.
We will not speak,
but hooded against the frost
soar above
the alder flats, searching
with tawny eyes.
And then we’ll sit
in the shadowy spruce
and pick the bones
of careless mice,
while the long moon drifts
toward Asia
and the river mutters
in its icy bed.
And when the morning climbs
the limbs
we’ll part without a sound,
fulfilled, floating
homeward as
the cold world awakens.
–John Haines
at dusk
from the island in the river,
and it’s not too cold,
I’ll wait for the moon
to rise,
then take wing and glide
to meet him.
We will not speak,
but hooded against the frost
soar above
the alder flats, searching
with tawny eyes.
And then we’ll sit
in the shadowy spruce
and pick the bones
of careless mice,
while the long moon drifts
toward Asia
and the river mutters
in its icy bed.
And when the morning climbs
the limbs
we’ll part without a sound,
fulfilled, floating
homeward as
the cold world awakens.
–John Haines
