The second full moon this year (the Jan moon was the Wolf moon) is the Snow moon, which reached its brightest early this morning. Last night it was gorgeous–bright enough to read a book by, reflected on the snow.
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Got up during the night and we were up in the mountains and it was gorgeous!!! Really lovely sight!
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Sunday the 24th will be the worm moon. With the warming soil, the worms have started to become active…I found many while weeding my cutting garden. Unfortunately I also cleared out a last-year’s terrace pot only to find tons of slug eggs, just waiting for the warm weather to hatch!
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Tomorrow night the pink or egg moon rises. Moss phlox is blooming. It will look full for 3 nights.
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Tomorrow night the Flower Moon rises. This time it will be accompanied by Antares, a red supergiant star.
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June 21 brings the strawberry moon…and the wild ones in my garden have been setting fruit for a couple of weeks now. The next night is Berge in Flammen. For weeks, the locals have climbed to the highest peaks to place torches. They are lighted on Saturday night to outline all the ridges and peaks. It’s an amazing sight every year. The youngsters stay up partying all night, and we in our nachts aufwachen can periodically go out to the balcony and see all the ridges still burning against the pearly sky.
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Tomorrow the moon is full. The stag moon celebrates the stags’ fully-velveted antlers. We will hear them bellowing in the forests soon, and the local hotels lead visitors on full-moon hikes. The sound is eerie.
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I’m not sure how I’ve managed to miss this thread before - thank you. What a lovely read.
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Monday brings the sturgeon moon, a very special one because it is not only a season blue moon, but a super moon (when perigee occurs at full moon). It will be the brightest moon so far of 2024. The next blue moon-super moon may be in 2037! This is the moon celebrated by the Native American tribes around the Great Lakes when they noticed sturgeon migrating.
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Tomorrow the Harvest Moon, which is the nearest to the fall equinox, will rise…again, a supermoon. Uniquely, this moon rises at sunset for several evenings in a row, a signal to farmers that they have several extra evenings of moonlight to finish their harvests before the first frosts. In addition, there will be a partial eclipse!
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Are you saying, there is a sky behind all this grey? 
What grey? It’s lovely blue sky and sunshine where I live.
yeah, well, there are not only language barriers in this country.
In Ticino they’re probably sunbathing now.
FTW the partial eclipse happens this night between 4am and 5am.
AaaOoooooo!
Y’all should know that Samsung phones especially now use AI to detect when you make a photo of the moon and use Gen-AI to basically make up a pic of the moon based on whatever wobbly photo you make.
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This week the Hunter’s Moon rises on the 17th, the third and brightest of four super moons this year. Apogee occurs close to full moon time, so it should be very big and bright, illuminating the fields. It’s named for the ease with which hunters can see foxes and summer-fattened deer, now that the leaves have started falling and they have less cover in which to hide.
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