Sundown began with a bright beautiful full moon. It lit up the darkness and i was able to water the plants easily as everything was bathed in moonlight. It was yellow when i left the house around 5:30 am. When i arrived in fredericksburg the moon was just above the horizon, huge, and it had …
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Summer Chores become Nocturnal
The car read 108 degrees today and the porch thermometer at the house said 112. The tv at work said we tied the previous record in 2011 today for highest number of consecutive triple digit temperature days recorded at 27 consecutive days. They are forecasting 40 days. They say tomorrow will make 2023 the new …
Moonlight
I did not finish with the chores tonight until 9:30 pm. As soon as the moon rose i didnt care. Everything melted away and i was filled with a sense of contentment and perhaps joy. Walking around in the middle of the wilderness under a nearly full moon gives me a sense of well being …
Full Moon
A full moon was something ominous back when i worked in a psych ward. None of the patients’ medications seemed to work on a full moon. The veterans hallucinated enemy soldiers and re-employed all their combat training, including how to strangle an individual from behind with a phone cord. The schizophrenics had a tendency to …
Night-time Projects
I must wake up to go to my healthcare job at 1:30 in the morning. It is 10:05 pm. So naturally i am moving 50 bags of dirt from the car to the ground and from the ground to the shed and planting seedlings in makeshift planter boxes by flashlight. Time waits for no-one. The …
The Eclipse
The first two pictures are photographs of the moon in the couple days leading up to the eclipse, right around sundown. The photographs below are a collective progression of the most recent lunar eclipse from around 3:50 am to 5:15 am. I will make one note about the behavior of the wildlife during this eclipse. …
A Howling Wind and a Full Moon
A temperature drop was on the way. I had spent the predawn hours preparing for work and then taking a thirty minute nap in my car amidst a backdrop of lightening and pitter patter rain on the metal roof and windshield. For me, i’ve always had trouble getting to sleep in a house but i’ve …
Distress Call in the Night
i was sitting in my rocking chair writing when all of a sudden the night time silence was pierced by a racket of intense and noisy screaming. The dogs were immediately on their feet and ready for action. My first thought was “a fox has a chicken.” I grabbed my machete, slipped on my shoes, …
Critter Company during Pre-dawn Chores
This toad was hanging out under the water spigot next to the well house when i went out to do the morning chores. As soon as i set the lantern down he hopped right over to it and ate the bugs that were attracted to the light while i collected water. There’s so many of …
Nature’s Night Light
There were no street lamps where i lived. When there was no moon, there was no light. However, when there was a full moon, it almost became like daylight in the yard. It was so bright; just like in the movies. The moonlight illuminated tree branches, lit up the metal of the dog run fence, …