Full Ruby Throat Moon

Full Ruby Throat rises Wednsday, 15 minutes after the sun sets. Be there with your sweetie, your kids and old people, or your just going to miss it, it will be so spectacular. I am so busy, soooooo darned tied up with work stuff. But,I just could'nt let this full moon pass unnoticed, not the one that awoke me during the night tonight, several nights, oh wow! No one should miss that show. Hummers have been intense for us this fall. Especially after Ida slid past us, it is my belief that she shoved them on us when she cleaned house east of here. She knocked down all the HB feeders and beat up the flowers. How about a bit of Margaret's writing?: "When I Was Young at Purple Creek." When I was young at Purple Creek, I dangled my toes in the trickle of water and watched minnows dart around them, sending tickles and goose pimples all the way up my skinny white legs. When I was young at Purple Creek, I buried my Barbies in the sand, played Treasure Island on the wrip-wrap shore, and let go of the leash so Loopy could wander and explore, bark at the squirrels. When I was young at Purple Creek, my fear of snakes was on high alert. Brother shouted a warning just to see me jump. We gathered treasures in a tin bucket (rocks, broken glass, colored leaves, mimosa seed pods, a baby frog). My flip-flop feet toughened on summer days when I was young at Purple Creek. The trickle was my ocean. The shoreline my cave. The pine trees my towers. I was queen of Purple Creek. Margaret Simon Peace Love Possumhugs BT

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