Corn Moon
Camped out at 11,000ft this past weekend, I watched the full moon rising through the lingering afternoon thunderstorm clouds. I wish more people took the time to do the same.
Want to know more about full moon names? Check out the Farmers’ Almanac.
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Evocative image Guy. I watched it rise through the pines this past weekend up near the Canadian border. You certainly captured some of the haunting qualities I felt.
In Lois Sherr Dubin’s North American Indian Jewelry and Adornment, she uses a circular graphic that relates the names of the moons to the activities and resources for a representative tribe in each region. She says the Lakotas call the fall equinox moon the “Moon of the yellow leaves” and the Coast Chumash of California call it the “month when those that are dry come down.” The subarctic Teetl’it Gwich’in call it “when birds fly away.”
The variations are a good metaphor for the truth that what you bring in your head to the landscape is everything about what pictures you will make while you are there. If you are there, if you are seeing at all.