Rising moon from a backyard tent

Why I Like to Sleep Outside on a Hot Summer Night

We feel like kids sleeping outside in a tent in our own backyard! But then there are the peacocks at 4 am … and the full moon like a flashlight in your face … Still – we wait all year for nights like this!

Solstice, Suntracks, Supermoons, and a Happy New Year!

Full Moon Rise
Dear Friends,

I thought I might write you all sooner. At the time of the last full moon of the year, for example, would have been appropriate, but the great white orb managed to boldly rise in the cold night sky and then set in quiet serenity the following morning without any website fanfare on my part (although I admit to a certain amount of cavorting in song and celebration, which is usually what happens when I whip out my harmonicas under a full moon….). (Not to draw correlations, of course.)

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