Friday, February 27, 2009

Daily Draw: Wet/dry moon



I slipped out into the dark tonight. Q-tips were urgently needed, I decided... Or, I urgently needed to get Q-tips or anything, just to get away from whiney, testy children with pussy, gross ears and the runs. One of the two...

Either way, walking, I was struck by the oddly bottom-lit, very bright, slender crescent moon. I googled when I got home. I learned here it used to be referred to as both a "dry" and a "wet" moon, special to this time of year:

1 comments:

copperseal said...

hi! lovely blog you have here - i found you while google searching for an image of a lazy hippo to use with a recent poem i wrote. i hope you don't mind! you can check out the post here: http://copperseal.blogspot.com/2009/03/writing-at-4am-nonsensical.html