The moons

I don’t know if anyone else looks at their blogging stats – I try not to be obsessive about it but I do find it rather fascinating to see when I come up during Google searches (you can tell this from your stats).  When people searching on ‘wrapping,’ for instance – I come up.  Or Flor de Fuxico – both subjects of posts I’ve done. 

The oddest, perhaps, is the search on ‘underneath my tongue is blue’ – not sure that I’ve done a post on the underneath side of a tongue but who knows – I do blather on so it’s possible.

The big hitters are full moons, names of the moons, and, of course, blue moons.   They increase around the time of full moons.  It got me thinking what are the names of the moons?  Other than Harvest Moon I don’t know any of the others.  So for those of you searching for the names of the moons here you go (according to the Farmer’s Almanac):

January ~ Wolf Moon
February ~ Snow Moon
March ~ Worm Moon
April ~ Pink Moon
May ~ Flower Moon
June ~ Strawberry Moon
July ~ Buck Moon
August ~ Sturgeon Moon
September ~ Harvest Moon
October ~ Hunter’s Moon
November ~ Beaver Moon
December ~ Cold Moon

I love that April is Pink Moon.  I hadn’t ever heard that before except in Nick Drake’s song Pink Moon which I thought was about a drug related hallucination.  Bit of a segue here but did you know that Nick Drake sold more albums in the month following the release of the Volkswagen commercial featuring that song than he did the previous 30 years.

There is a little bit of uncertainty about the actual meaning of "Blue Moon."  The most commonly accepted explanation is that is the second full moon in a month but there is also the belief it is the fourth full moon in a season.  I’m going by the first explanation and the only blue moon we will have this year will be on May 31st. 

We are going to declare it a holiday here at Under a blue moon. 

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