Magnificent Moons...

Sadly, in terms of quality this is a rather mangy set of photos with which to honour the full moon from the beginning of the month. Oh, to have a camera that would do justice to the beauty of the night sky! Nevertheless, the huge 'supermoon' glowing above was truly breathtaking and indeed bigger and brighter than any that I could recall, making the tree branches and Christmas decorations all the more striking.

The rather quizzical label 'Beaver Moon', is in fact to mark the activities of the creature in question, dating back to a time when the calendar was divided up according to the changes in Nature and annotated in the Old Farmer’s Almanac. Hence, the Beaver Moon finds its place along with the Buck, Wolf, Sturgeon and Worm variety, not to mention the Flower, Strawbery and Corn Moon, to name just a few. Appropriately, the Cold Moon at the beginning of December marks the start of the deep Winter... I love the glaringly obvious fact - yet somehow magical all the same - that the moon in all its varying stages is the same one that all our ancestors have gazed at since time immemorial, all over the world, in awe and wonder!