Showing posts with label hunter's moon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hunter's moon. Show all posts

Thursday, June 23, 2022

Moon River Morning ...

“Moon river, wider than a mile

I’m crossing you in style someday

Oh, dream maker

You heartbreaker

Wherever you’re going I’m going your way

Two drifters off to see the world

There’s such a lot of world to see

We’re after the same rainbow’s end

Waiting round the bend

My huckleberry friend

Moon river and me.”

                  ~ “Moon River”

        ~ composed by Henry Mancini with lyrics by Johnny Mercer, originally performed by Audrey Hepburn in the 1961 movie “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” winning an Academy Award for Best Original Song.

The moon meets the river on a beautiful morning in the surreal.

I created this image by blending my shot of 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 early morning of May 31, 2022 at the Ford of the Jordan Creek, one of my very favorite places to be and to photograph, at Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania. I shot this after taking sunrise photos at the preserve. I spent several hours walking through the preserve’s beautiful spring scenery with the air soft and warm in the low 70s before temperatures soared into the 90s.

For more than 50 years visitors have enjoyed driving through the Jordan Creek. Kids and kids at heart cite “Crossing the Water” as one of their fondest memories.


 

Monday, October 25, 2021

The Moon Takes Its Turn ...

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

                       ~ Rumi

                 ~ 13th 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.