To: missyme
The term "Harvest Moon" doesn't have any links to color. It is just the first full moon to occur after the beginning of autumn, so by definition we have a Harvest Moon every year. It was a welcome source of light to farmers working to bring in the crops in the days when artificial light meant candles or oil lamps. Since a full moon rises at sunset, it effectively extended the hours in which they had sufficient light to work in the fields.
That's it. Nothing mysterious or unusual about it at all.
101 posted on
09/28/2004 7:59:14 PM PDT by
Denver Ditdat
(Ronald Reagan belongs to the ages now, but we preferred it when he belonged to us.)
To: Denver Ditdat
I know I was just reading about it....
It's just so many strange weather phoenamnas are happening right now
103 posted on
09/28/2004 8:05:01 PM PDT by
missyme
To: Denver Ditdat; missyme
That's it. Nothing mysterious or unusual about it at all.The October full moon is called the "Hunters Moon". In fact all full moons have a name depending on the month they fall in.
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