Depending upon where you are in the world, the Harvest Moon will take place on either this Thursday or Friday. The occurrence of the Harvest Moon in October happens about one in four years. The latest a Harvest Moon can occur is October 7th or 8th, depending on your relative position to the date line.
The Harvest Moon gets it’s name because it happens at the beginning of harvesting season in the Northern Hemisphere. Since modern agriculture is not as dependent on the light of the Harvest Moon, it has become a symbol for the beginning of the festive and colorful fall season. Halloween isn’t too far in the future and Thanksgiving Day will be here before you know it.
And speaking of moonlight, did you know that most people cannot perceive color nor can they read by the light of the moon? See NASA’s Strange Moonlight for some interesting information on the Harvest Moon and human eyesight in the moonlight.
Fascinating stuff about the moonlight, I know I’ve *tried* to read during a full moon on Maui, and probably just thought I had too many mai-tais. 😉
Ha – funny anecdote about the maitais DirtCrashr . . .
I can’t do those or I see too many colors!
How’s the target shooting? We just acquired a couple of S&W 908’s and still getting used to them. Fun though.
Absolutely gorgeous. I posted my harvest moon picture.
I liked Gail’s Harvest Moon picture with the colors in the foreground – very nice:
http://gailalison.blogspot.com/2006/10/harvest-moon.html