Tonight I will gather with friends for a while at the home of neighbors as I “take a cup o’ kindness yet” and not forget our wonderful old acquaintances of “Auld Lang Syne,” but later we will be home with family when we count down the seconds to the new year as the ball drops on Times Square.
At midnight, if the clouds cooperate, we’ll step outdoors and see the second full moon of the month, a blue moon. It isn’t actually the color blue but the name is indicative of how rare the two moons in one month event occurs. Blue moon is linked to the saying, “Once in a blue moon.” According to National Geographic, the last time a blue moon occurred on New Year’s Eve was in 1990 and the next blue moon we’ll see on this date will be in 2028. Visit the National Geographic site to learn more tidbits about our moon, such as, astronauts say that lunar dust smells like spent gunpower or learn how the moon was formed from a chunk of earth.
I hadn’t heard about this…I’ll keep an eye out. It’s pretty cloudy though.
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You were right, Phillip! We knew we had a mere 4% chance of a break in the clouds and we got rain in our eyes as we looked up…
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Once in a blue moon, only to be clouded out. The tree looks like the one you pictured earlier in the fog~
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We were indeed clouded out and rained out. We didn’t see the blue moon but the evening still felt bright and illuminated as we ushered in 2010. Happy New Year!
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Blue Moon
You saw me standing alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own…
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