By: Blonde Two
Last night was a full moon again. It was lovely and as it rose over my house, it seemed bigger than ever.
I have had the opportunity to be outside in the moonlight a fair few times in the last couple of weeks, and I have to say that I find it very agreeable. There is something about moonlight that makes one feel calm and at one with the universe. Maybe it is the fact that the moon, although a long way away, is actually attainable, people have actually been there.
I do wish, however, that I had a) the camera and b) the skill to take photos of the moon. While we were out with the Ashburton Dartmoor Search and Rescue Team on Wednesday night, the moon was perfect, it shone directly through the branches of a tree onto us. It was like sitting in a pool of silver but my photos were like mushy blurs of light.
I have decided that a bivvy bag might be a good way to look at the Dartmoor moon (although clear nights on the moors can be evasive). Mr B2 does a fair amount of bivying but I haven’t tried it yet.
I guess some girls want moonstones and diamonds for Christmas, I would like a bivvy bag so that I can lie out on Dartmoor and have the moon and stars instead.
When the moon hits your eye,
Like a big slice of pie,
That’s amore.
Very Old Song.
Early Christmas wishes from Hereford: May you be carried away in an avalanche of sales.
Pawky question. Do bivvy bags come two up?
An avalanche of sales would be nice. Currently we are on the verge of running out of books, but a new print run is due in.
Either the song isn’t so old or I am older than I thought I was.
Not sure about the bivvy bags but you can be sure that I won’t be going alone, not with my nyctophobia!
Having had some expert input on Milky Way/moon photography in Peru, I’d be happy to show you what I know, on a moonlit evening – have done some in my garden!
That would be great, now all I need is a camera!
Haven’t used mine this year, but last year I had a glorious outdoor sleep on a moor only 5 miles from home; we walked there in the dark across fields, hills and a cliff. K9 thought it most odd – he had a tarpaulin for a bedroom as my bivvy bag is single. Splash out – get a goretex one that you can vanish into completely if it is cold – and may your moons always gleam beautifully.