Tuesday, April 27, 2021

And then a full moon rising

 


















Last night when I went to bed, it was still light outside.  I read until I fell asleep.  Not long after that I woke up and couldn't get back to sleep and so I got out of bed.  When I looked out my living room window, I saw the full moon rising in the east, extraordinarily bright.  I went back to bed to read until I fell asleep again.  In the past week, it's been warm enough to have all my screened windows open, but by this morning the temperature in my bedroom was 55 degrees.  No wonder I had such a good night's sleep after all.  The windows are closed again for now.  It's almost noon and still chilly inside.  I'm looking forward to a walk this afternoon on a hillside trail that it new to me.  The trail begins close to the home of a friend who lives about 15 minutes away to the east.  The road that goes to her house follows, more or less, the northern shore of Lake Whatcom, which is the 14-mile glacier-fed lake that I can see from my porch, through the trees.

When I was walking in the woods yesterday, I heard Great Horned Owls calling back and forth.  I called out a "Who, Who, WhoWho," as I had on April 20 but didn't see either of them.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

The moon was such a beautiful sight last night. I was so glad the sky was clear and we actually got to see it. Yay! I'm glad you saw it too. We love the season of open windows at night. The best for sleeping. Hope you had a wonderful walk. Say hello to those Great Horned Owls for me, Who Who Who Who!

ellen abbott said...

it was overcast here the night of the full moon but the cloud cover spread out the light. the night before though was clear and it rose nearly full and beautiful.

Colette said...

What a beautiful life!

37paddington said...

I love that we share the moon.