This past weekend,Mom said we had a very big moon!
It is called a perigee moon.
Mom says that it is closer to us and very big, like my eyes!
Mom took some pictures.It was pretty cloudy and
she had to wait for breaks.Good thing she did as we have
had foggy nights since, and rain is in the forecast.
The moon peeking out from the clouds.
Almost looks spooky!
Big and round.
Mom said the cloudy moon reminded her of a poem
by Alfred Noyes called "The Highwayman"
Especially the first stanza:
THE wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees,
The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,
And the highwayman came riding—
Riding—riding—
The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.
THE wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees,
The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,
And the highwayman came riding—
Riding—riding—
The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.
