Click on pictures to see them enlarged in a photo stream. Comments: word verification on to allow anyone to comment but try and deter excessive amounts of spam! I LOVE getting comments!

Saturday 2 February 2013

A rising moon.....


I love the moon, and with the Orkney landscape I get to see it rising, setting and sinking throughout the year. I love the moonlight that spills through my bedroom window and watching it glimmer on the sea in the bay. Button, of course, loves a "Hunter's Moon" and often sets trotting off out the door for a hunting spree. These photos are a little out of focus but I love the way the moon "sits" upon the hill before rising. As if taking a rest in her nightly journey!


You can imagine that the clouds could set into the shape of a face and maybe that is where "The Man in the Moon" stories began.... but really.... everyone knows the moon is female :-)


And there she is, on her way again...




17 comments:

  1. That reminds me of a poem by Walter de la Mare which I learned at school and always loved.

    Silver
    Slowly, silently, now the moon
    Walks the night in her silver shoon;
    This way, and that, she peers, and sees
    Silver fruit upon silver trees;
    One by one the casements catch
    Her beams beneath the silvery thatch;
    Couched in his kennel, like a log,
    With paws of silver sleeps the dog;
    From their shadowy cote the white breasts peep
    Of doves in silver feathered sleep
    A harvest mouse goes scampering by,
    With silver claws, and silver eye;
    And moveless fish in the water gleam,
    By silver reeds in a silver stream.
    Walter de la Mare

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. That's one of my favourite poems, and it definitely suits Sian's photos.

      Delete
    2. Yes I love that poem too!

      Delete
  2. Replies
    1. The moon is one of my favourite subjects :-)

      Delete
  3. thank you or sharing .. I adore the moments you kept in the fotos

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Thanks for dropping by. I love the images on your blog too!

      Delete
  4. It was most certainly an impressive moon. I pointed it out to the teenage girl child in my life. Thoroughly unimpressed. I may recycle her.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Bah!! After all you've done for that child and she doesn't appreciate the moon?? Send her to bed without any supper. Tee hee!

      Delete
  5. Replies
    1. Thanks Perpetua. I love the moon but keep forgetting to look out for it till it's too dark for me to take photos with my camera

      Delete
  6. The Native Americans see a rabbit in the moon.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Oh I LOVE that idea.... I must look that up... and look up at that :-)

      Delete
  7. Great moon close up. Did you take that with your Lumix? I have never been able to get a good close up with it.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Camera shake is usually a problem. So I prop the camera onto something. The best way would also be to use the self time setting but I always forget. But I propped it on the windowsill upstairs and pressed the shutter. It's still a bit blurred but better than holding in my hands!

      Delete