Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Full Strawberry Moon




Native Americans often referred to the June Full Moon as the Strawberry Moon because the strawberries were being harvested in June. The actual time of  this "full moon" in Seattle was about 4:02 AM Monday morning, June 20th (yesterday).  We were afraid we had missed the event due to a mostly cloudy sky. However, around 5:30 AM we happened to look to the west where their was a clearing near the horizon. As you can see, we were lucky!

15 comments:

  1. Lovely. I've never heard of Strawberry Moon, ahem. I didn't even see the moon tonight but it looks beautiful in your photo. Happy Summer Solstice to you.

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  2. 4AM in the morning, you should have been with the Druids down at Stonehenge this morning watching the Sunrise. Me I'm fast asleep. Nice work catching the moon like that, I never can

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  3. We had nothing but clouds and a little rain. You captured it so wonderfully! Thank you so much for the great picture. :-)

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  4. Beautiful! I'm glad you captured it. I saw it, but didn't even try for a shot because I knew it wouldn't turn out.

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  5. Hello John, that is a stunning view of the moon. Great shot!
    Happy Tuesday, enjoy your day and week ahead!

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  6. purdy

    I was enjoying it last night. It seemed huge huge huge

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  7. Great moon shot. I had never heard of the strawberry moon.

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  8. As I said on FaceBook,this is beautiful.

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  9. gosh, that's just beautiful, john.

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  10. Wow what a beautiful moon shot.

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  11. You ended up with a great shot of the moon!

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  12. This is a fabulous view of the moon, John, an amazing shot indeed!
    Thank you so much for your nice comment on my blog.
    Many greetings, have a pleasant Thursday!

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  13. It was amazing witnessing the strawberry moon from here in Germany. Wonderful picture!! Wishing you a great weekend :)

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  14. That is quite the shot! Beautiful photo! Just now I'm catching up on all the posts I missed when my laptop was in for repairs. Thank you for all the wonderful comments you left on my blog!

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