How 'bout that Moon!

[digitS']

So, what does the moon have to do with Everything Else Garden?

Well, it's coming on to full. It's called the Flower Moon or Corn-planting Moon ... I sure won't be planting any sweet corn seed!

Okay, if not the moon, then the sun!! It's 3am, the sun isn't up. Have you noticed how low the moon is during the summer. Some kind of mind-bogglingly astrological balance to the sun that the Earth circles by the satellite that circles the Earth ...

A month into Spring and the sun will be up soon! We are right at 14 1/2hrs of sunlight. Meanwhile, Springfield Illinois (the Flower City) only has 14hrs .

Don't take it too hard (nearly at May Day), Springfield, there below 40° North latitude. You'll soon enough be a full hour behind locations on 48° North! Some times it almost scares me to think what the change of seasons and daylight/darkness must be like as far north as Edmonton or Stockholm!

Steve

 

[thistlebloom]

I got up in the wee hours to adjust the curtain so the moonlight didn't shine in my face. It is beautiful though, when you want to be awake and looking at it.
Speaking of long days, I never thought about how far north Scotland was until I began reading a few books based on that area of the world.
Seems it never gets totally dark in the summer, just twilight.

I call this time of year Sleep Deprivation Season, I hate to go to bed when there's still light outside, and I hate to stay in bed when it's getting light outside.

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

I had the windows open and the balcony door too cus it was close to 90 yesterday. So when I got up, yes, it was bright enough outside to SEE those da!! deer just waiting to jump into my yard. Somehow they are not afraid of me at 1:15 a.m. when i'm psssttting at them from the 3rd floor balcony.

 

[curly_kate]

@thistlebloom - My sister moved to Newcastle, England last summer - it's almost to the Scotland border. They had to buy blackout curtains right away because her son was up with the sun - 5 a.m.! Of course, the winter was pretty miserable with only about 6 hours of daylight every day. I never realized how far north it was either. They are the same latitude as Nova Scotia.

 

[digitS']

I'm not sure when I last had trouble sleeping during daylight.

Naps have never been part of my routine but that may be changing. I have lots of trouble sleeping any length of time. I'd have to be a lot further north in the summer for my sleep to be considered "overnight."

The plants like all the daylight. The thread on soil making us happy ... Water, we like to play in it ... Plants like soil, water - we need to allow ourselves to enjoy sunlight. I ain't hidin'!!

Steve