Full Slowly Shucking Gold Moon
Full moon is Saturday, September 14. Full Slowly Shucking Gold Moon ( OK Dog, say that fast three times! ) rises about 8 after the sun sets at about 715. This should be a fine rising y'all, she woke me up at 3am this morning. I have chosen this name because since the last FM my amazing Red Buckeye Tree has been slowly dropping all of those yellow/gold fringed leaves. In the afternoon sunsets the color is especially fine. That is a sentiment my fellow Couriers des Bois ("Woods Runners") will understand. This is what Bill Fontenot calls the plant people of wild places. There are no finer human beings, y'all. For the rest of them here is a question from Kathleen Dean Moore in Wild Comfort , "What will the Earth lose when it loses human beings?" From John Muir, "Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and s...