pink moon

Last week, we experienced a gorgeous full moon. It was particularly spectacular when it hung low above the tundra.  I took like a million photos.

At one point I started to get frostbite on my fingers and my camera battery was dying, but I kept on taking pictures.

The werewolf comes stepping along
He doesn't even break the branches where he's gone once
I saw him in the moonlight when the bats were flying
I saw the werewolf, and the werewolf was crying
Nobody knows
How i loved the man, as i teared off his clothes
How nobody knows
When i see that it's risen, that full moon again .

..All through the night, until the light of day,
And we are doomed to play

-Cat Power

blood moon

I figured out how to use my tripod and turn on the night mode on my camera, just in time for the blood moon eclipse last night.

I first noticed the moon while walking home from snowboarding.  It was hovering just above the horizon, eerily huge.  I tried to take a picture of it, but it never looks the same on the screen.

I decided to stay up that night to watch the eclipse.  We run on Mountain Time up here, so I wouldn't have to stay up as late as you ordinary folks in the eastern time zone, but still it was definitely past my bed time. It was worth it. So I set up a lawn chair on my front step and watched the moon while listening to Cat Power on my headphones.

...and then got cold. So at around one in the morning, I went inside and watched from my living room window instead.  Which, as it turned out, had just as good a view.

moon above house. I wish my neighbour would shut off her lights

Then I realized the northern lights were also out at the same time.

Nunavut is a magical place.

I went outside for a walk.

i saw it written and i saw it say 

pink moon is on its way 

and none of you stand so tall 

pink moon is gonna get you all

-nick drake

The next night, the moon was even fuller and brighter, although it was no longer blood red.

Next month, the sun will stop setting. I am going to miss the night.

Bunnicula, lurking in the dark

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je chasse la lune

Le soleil ne se lève pas ces jours, mais la lune se lève chaque jour.  La lune est pleine cette semaine. Chaque matin, la lune est encore là, près de l'horizon, en descendant. Quand j'ai fini le travail, la lune commence à monter le ciel. C'est une vue merveilleuse. 

Parfois, nous conduisons dans le camion, chassant la lune.  Nous cherchons la meilleur place pour voir la lune.

the moon in polar twilight

C'est quand je me souviens que j'ai besoins d'un meilleur camera.