Sunday, March 20, 2011

moon hype

"the moon looks upon many night flowers,
the night flowers see but one moon."
- jean ingelow


what i expected to see

perspective.

what i saw instead


it's strange what perspective can do to one's perception of things.  with all of the media hype yesterday, i expected to see a huge, gigantimongous glowing orb bouncing ponderously on the horizon....blotting out the surrounding sky. obscuring millions of stars.  instead, i was presented with a moon like most others. distant. pale. diminutive.

i was disappointed.

perhaps i'll find the moon i was looking for in fragments and cloth when i get home tonight....

namaste'

11 comments:

  1. haha that's funny! I knew it was so light out last night, but didn't know why until I saw friend's FB posts about it. I wish we had seen what you thought we were going to see!
    xo,
    Sena

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  2. Where I am, I noticed the moon was exceptionally bright, almost hard to look at. Actually it was, I could not stare at it long.
    :)

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  3. Well, I think your photo is quite wondrous and magical and mysterious, even though the moon didn't fill the whole sky! My photos make the moon look like a lightbulb in a distant closet!

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  4. My experience was as identically disappointing as yours. It looked just like yours too...I wrote to someone that, alas, I must be a Harvest Moon person...

    Here's too bigger glorious moons to come!!!

    Camilla

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  5. wow, marie! that's cool! it may have been brighter here, but for all the clouds...

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  6. I had the same reaction as you. The moon was very bright, but I was expecting the huge moon like we had in 2008. Oh well, it was pretty, I saw it, and I didn't have to go out in the snow like I did for the eclipse! Have a great week.

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  7. I am so glad you lassoed the moon for me. It looks just fabulous on the snow flower quilt:) It makes me smile every time I walk by.

    For a little different perspective, I've been known to moon, and it's definitely bigger! LOL

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  8. It was as bold and bright as can be here in a cloudless sky.

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  9. oh, wanda, you always make me giggle uncontrollably...getting people to wonder if it's time to call in the professionals or something...

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  10. that's what overblown expectations are for - being disappointing! I enjoyed my moon in Sussex by the sea, perhaps the sea helped add a note of mystery. Your picture of it looks lovely - a mindful steady hand or a tripod?

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