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ring around the moon

Posted on January 31, 2010 - Filed Under honeymilk farm

…means snow is coming soon.

It made me wish I was a heck of a lot better at photography. This was Thursday night, moon 98% full, and these strange lumpy, flat, clouds that Sophie said were the Underworld and Luc said looked like oatmeal. This picture is crap compared to what it looked like but there was a real-live-honest-to-gawd reddish ring around that gorgeous moon. Those old farmers who said a ring around the moon meant snow coming were right.

Hosts of angles came, too.

And cats.

We’re still snowed in, but hallelujah the power hasn’t gone out.

More when I find my camera. The yurt is a mess.

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