Bella Luna

It's Fall, my most favorite season of all!

In New York we have a lot of clear, crisp beautiful days and crazy me looks half way normal walking around in my snugly sweaters, as opposed to me looking like a fruitcake in the summer with those sweaters!

I hope you caught the Harvest Full Moon just a week or so ago. I noticed it just before it was full, on September 10th. I was at a party in Long Island with family and the sky was so bright, it was beautiful. When I got home I went outside and looked up at the sky, it was so blue, like the blue of daytime, not the dark blue of night and the clouds were moving in a cool pattern. My sister had also attended the party and was staying overnight to break her ride from Long Island to upstate New York. I called her downstairs, away from her obsession of a new video game on her ipod and I could tell she was appeasing me walking down the stairs. She looked and said it was beautiful and walked back inside. As she was walking up the stairs I asked her if it was worth it? She said yes, but she wasn't seeing the same thing as me. I'm amazed by nature, when you really stop to think about it, it's little miracles going on all around us. Even in the city of New York and the streets of Brooklyn and Staten Island, not only upstate, where, yes, it is more beautiful because the city lights block some of our view, but they also add different colors to the sky that you wont see upstate. Even Jersey, the factories and the smoke rising up have made for some of the most beautiful sunsets I have seen. Okay, maybe not be the healthiest thing, but I can't say it isn't pretty to look at.
I hope I never grow tired of seeing a beautiful moon.

One night my cousin in Colorado and I planned on looking up at the "Pink Full Moon" on April 17th. So here we are so far away from each other but both of us were looking up in the night sky at the pink moon. Not an obvious pink, but a soft glow, kinda pinkish and it was like Sandra I standing side by side sharing the beautiful sky together and texting each other about what we both saw.

Again, I'm a novice photographer but I went out and took some pictures that night, I think I captured a few cool ones.



I love looking at the moon as it rises, especially the autumn moons, are they closer? They look different, the colors are amazing. The Hunters Full Moon is scheduled for October 11th at 10:06p.m., EDT. Mark your calendar! Even for the day before and after, depending on the weather you might get a better view on different nights. Get your kids out there, show them how amazing our world is, how much there is to see and learn, about so many things, show them the beauty right out your own front door, tell them how the moon follows them. I loved that as a kid.

Bella Luna.

I have said that every time I'm lucky enough to see one of those special moons. I got the line from the movie "Moonstruck". One of the character's calls it Cosmo's Moon. He wakes his wife to see it and you watch her look at husband in such a loving way watching his face glow by the light of the moon. And the "old man" who takes his pack of dogs to the park, shouting "bella luna", teaching his dogs how to howl at moon, laughing and just elated by a beautiful moon.

And the old beautiful New York City skyline...bella luna!