Pink Moon Red Hills
The Pre-sunrise windy morning was chilly with the breeze cutting through the kinks in my cold armor. My first instinct was to work the ridges but I went to the top first instead of working up. I usually don’t take the high photo early in the photoshoot. This whole timeline has marvelous pastels. A plus was the moon was almost pink too shining though the pink alpenglow. Blue clouds thicker but parting to let the moon peek through.
A Supermoon is one when the moon is at perigee (closest to the earth on it’s elliptical orbit). The moon looks particularly large because it is lol. An Egg Moon, Fish Moon, Grass, Sprouting Grass Moon and otherwise known as the Pink moon historically. According to the Old Farmer’s Almanac, April’s full moon often corresponded with the early springtime blooms of Phlox subulata, a pink wildflower native to eastern North America. The wildflower is commonly called creeping phlox or moss phlox – and also goes by the name “moss pink.”
Syzyge (SiZ-i jee) … what a wonderful scrabble word. It’s a nifty occurrence though. Conjunctions of 3 celestial objects (sun, earth moon) is an alignment in a straight line). A solar or lunar eclipse when all three are aligned is Syzyge Perigee syzgy… the moon is at perigee AND there is syzygy happening, aligning with the Earth and Sun, It’s termed perigee syzygy, AKA Supermoon.
Now you know as much as I do about the Pink Moon this year. All my images are posted about a week after they are taken so this posts the 14th, taken the morning of the 7th. It’s as fast as I can get to new images posted these days as I write these narratives right at a week ahead of their posting. (currently).
Location: Bliss Dinosaur Ranch, Wyoming/Montana borderlands (Wyotana)
Title: Pink Moon Red Hills