December Full Moon

  The December full moon, tonight, is a Super moon again and was once called  'The Moon Before Yule' or 'The Cold Moon' or 'Long Night Moon'. A super moon is when a full moon happens at its closest to earth.

I found this picture online, it's a copy of a painting by Leeds artist John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893). He was known as a painter of night scenes in urban environments. .....and fairies! The moonlight scenes he painted are all beautiful.

Found this poem online too.           Winter's Moon by Nina Hughes

Cold blue ice ball in the sky

winter's full moon flots serenely

on a sea of tranquil black

bobbing like a whale on windblown waves

She watches all below.

She peeks through a veil of wispy cloud

To spy on lovers through their windows

Smiling softly she moves on

gigantic mistress of the night.

All creation on the earth loos up in wonder

Rabbit squirrel, horse and cow know her well

Little babies hide their faces in mothers fur

She coaxes them to remember 

"Oh it's you! Hello!"

The graveyard tombs like candles on a cake

She lights them one by one

and those who hide in fear

for what they had done

She shines on them all.

Sinner, saint and bogeyman are subject to her reign

Trees bow in reverent homage,

each flower preens for her delight.

She follows little children to light their way in darkest night.

Fairies dance like fire flies underneath her glow

witches pass by her face on broomsticks, tickling her nose

Pagans ever paginating under her watchful eye

Tribes of wayward waifs sneaking out late at night

Seas obey her every whim

Calendars mark her regal passage

Fields and garden give her everything they have

Times goes on and she has seen it all.........

Day three of the coffee advent was Columbian - so I'm still waiting for something a bit unusual and my car suspension is fixed, no longer going crunch, crunch over bumps in the road and I've parted with £164 - the first December big bill sorted. Only four or even five more to come.....................