Full Moon Alert

 Full Garter Snakes A Running Moon rises Sunday and Monday as the sun sets. should be as clear as a bell down here on Gulf Rim! P and I will lift a glass to you our friends and to this moon's rising. 9-9-22 Full Covid-19 Moon is supposed to be rising around here somewhere. But we cannot seem to get a clear shot at it, so we headed to Loreauville to the East of New Iberia looking for it. I mean we rode all over and finally got a short look at her well after she cleared the trees. She is a beauty. 9-10-22 Tonight we headed North then East for a spectacular Moonrise. Practice makes perfect y'all. I got to tell you it is hard to wrangle my bride out of the house in her PJs just to see that ol moon rise, but she glad she went when she there.  9-13-22 P reported the yard full of small hummers, I'm thinking winter hummers??? perhaps just young RTHB, shoots they are all small and we do not get that many in our yard except when they arrive and when they leave, so who knows... Garter...

I call this moon Full Covid since we think we have it. P tested twice neg and me once pos so we are laying low and taking our meds. we are out of lock-down by Saturday if we behave. The almost Full Covid-19 Moon rises as the sun sets today, calendar say tomorrie. I say almost because the My Moon Phase app  on my phone says it is 98% full and sunset and moonrise are 1-2 minutes apart. Then Saturday's rising is100% at about 30 minutes after sunset and Sunday's is 98% at about 1 hour apart. Oh my, what a perfect timepiece.she is. All three days, by the way are perfect here on the deep woods of the Teche Ridge because we cannot see the moon actually rise for an hour or so after it does pop above the horizontal because the trees are so thick to the East, even in winter with no leaves. We know it is happening, we see the light, but cannot make out the moon. If we are traveling about Friday it will be a grand sight over the cane fields, or Saturday or Sunday. Be assured that P and I w...

  Full Giant Skink Moon rises Thursday,  8-11-22 right after sunset. There are two other full moons on the 12th and 13. It will be a good month for moon watchers. P and I plan to be there, welcoming the event with wine poured and good wishes in our hearts for you our friends. Why Full Giant Skink Moon, you ask? Because in our personal outdoor space seem to be overrun with them this spring and early summer. Little ones with red heads, Little ones with blue tails. Medium ones with big heads and giant ones with bigger heads. They are quite a trill when one decides to surprise us. The largest ones have heads the size of my big toe, which has been described as a water moccasin head sized big toe. I believe they are Five-Lined Skinks?? Oh, BTW, I skipped a couple of FMAs, life got in the way. I hope you forgive me/enjoyed the break from this swill (whichever fits). 5-15-22 First Locust vocalization of this season in my yard today. yesterday I thought I heard the birthing yelp of one...

  FULL GRAND MAMOU FLOWER EXPLOSION MOON     The Full M oon rises at sunset May 15, be there ! I t will be a fine and spectacular affair y’all. The May 16 moon will be its equal y’all.   This winter and spring have been crazy dry in our part of lower upper St Martin Parish . It stopped raining in November and rained very little until even now. I say 2-3” but it may be 3-4”. This has delayed leaf out in some plants including the spectacular Mamou and even some of our Coast Live Oaks. For the longest time my Mamou s did nothing. I pruned them back and they just sat there. I was getting nervous especially the ones I planted on campus where there were rumors of herbicide misuse in my “ unkept and messy landscapes ”; t o some eyes (native prairie and pollinator habitat landscapes are not like the poodle landscapes we see all around us and therefore undesirable, “ hard to navigate my ZTR through, God forbid! ” ) , I declare that they are delightfully rough. ...