The Moon Takes Its Turn ...

“The sun loved the moon so much he died every night to let her breathe.”

                       ~ Rumi

                 ~ 13^th century Persian poet

                          ~ 1207 ~ 1273

As an October sunset paints the sky with its fiery beauty, a beautiful moon takes its turn to be the star of the autumn sky in the beautiful surreal.

I created this image by blending my shot the full Hunter’s Moon – when hunters used moonlight to hunt prey and prepare for winter – of October 20, 2021 as it shone its beauty at 8:22 p.m. over the West End of Allentown, Pennsylvania, with my capture of the gorgeous sunset of October 21, 2021 at one of the highest elevations of Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.

 

Strawberry Moon Field ...

“Let me take you down

'Cause I’m going to Strawberry Fields

Nothing is real

And nothing to get hung about

Strawberry Fields forever …”

      ~ “Strawberry Fields Forever”

          ~ released 1967

   ~written by John Lennon & credited to

              Lennon-McCartney

~ John Lennon based the song on his childhood memories of playing in the garden of Strawberry Field, a Salvation Army children’s home in Liverpool.

 

The Super Strawberry Moon “ripens” in a beautiful field in abstract, where nothing is real.

 

I created this image by blending my shot of the Super Strawberry Moon holding court in the sky over the West End of Allentown, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley at 10:33 p.m. June 24, 2021, with background texture by Jai Johnson for artistic effect.

 

This Super Strawberry Moon is the last near-Supermoon of 2021. According to the Old Farmer’s Almanac, the name “Strawberry Moon” originated with Algonquin tribes in eastern North America, who knew the June full moon as a signal to gather ripening fruit of wild strawberries.

 

This Super Strawberry Moon rose just before 9 p.m. in the Lehigh Valley, about a half-hour passed sunset. It is the first full moon of summer 2021.