BLOOD WOLF SUPERMOON

I missed the most majestic part of the lunar eclipse last Night because I am an idiot. I was looking forward to seeing this Blood Wolf Supermoon. How am I an idiot? Well I won't go into all the ways.

This time of year the Sun is low on the Southern horizon and we have a very large Arborvitae Hedge on our Southern border. Except for a few hours a day the Sun barely skirts this hedge in its arc across the sky.

I saw the Moon as it came up and I saw it when it first began to eclipse. I went out when it should have been getting interesting and I couldn't see it. I assumed it must have dropped behind the hedge. That is how I am an idiot! The Moon doesn't follow the same arc as the Sun! I am sure there are some seasonal changes, but the Moon is high in the sky all Winter. What was I thinking? I know better. I always know the phase of the Moon and where it may be. How could I have had such a brain lapse!

In the early part of the Evening we had wispy clouds, it must have been obscured temporarily when I was out there. It was cold and I didn't spend more than seconds out there at a time.

When I realized, “Hey! The Moon should be high in the sky” it was past it's red phase and moving out of the eclipse.

In my defense my attitude was muted because we have had only iffy experiences with these lunar events. It is so often cloudy and the best parts are missed. We had a forecast for occasional wispy clouds and who knew it was going to clear up into a fantastic, sparkly Night.

Then we have had some fantastic times watching Lunar Eclipses also, usually unplanned. I remember one time my brother Garth and his lovely wife Arlene came over for a visit. We sat around a fire and watched an eclipse from its very conception to it's end. It was one of those perfect Nights, no mosquitoes and warm enough to be clad lightly. Garth left us a few years ago. I miss him and think of him frequently. We didn't get together much when he was alive, but every time we did it was like we were never parted. We could instantly reconnect. I loved him deeply. That event must have been in the middle to late Eighties.

I remember another Lunar event in the early Eighties. I don't remember if the aforementioned was total but this one was partial. There were more people present and it was a little raucous. It was an amazing enlightening experience and a great time was had by all. There may have been a mushroom involved.

It bothered me that I missed the best part of the eclipse. I saw some marvelous pictures of it on the internet. I have never seen a Moon that red!

I am writing in the Morning because I have things to do this afternoon. Right now I am going to go out and get a paper and come home, read the funnies and peruse the news.

Love and Peace, Gregg