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Bex Hall > Writing > September gives us a full Harvest Moon

September gives us a full Harvest Moon

September 25, 2021

We walked at Our Lady of Fatima shrine this month

Ellie under the Harvest Moon

My granddaughter, Ellie, came to visit for our walk when the moon is full adventure this past weekend. 

We picked poke berries and mashed them to make paint with a mortar and pestle. We cut open milkweed pods and discovered silky seeds. We picked Jewelweed pods and popped them open. We found a box turtle and counted scute rings to speculate its age.

Making poke berry paint
Counting scutes on a box turtle
What’s inside a milkweed pod?

We searched for Jiminy Cricket in the garage and experienced the wonders of surround sound and marveled about how one tiny insect could be so loud by just rubbing its forewings together. We chased grasshoppers even as she kept up her “I’m so scared of bugs” narrative.

Ah, grasshopper

As night fell, we drove to a nearby outdoor shrine to walk under the full moon. She brought her American Girl doll and we carried flashlights. We spoke about how waaay back when, before electricity, farmers finished gathering their crops after dark by the light of the harvest moon.

September Harvest Moon 2021

As we walked around the reflecting pool, we witnessed several large frogs jump in and we watched the koi swim in the murky depths. When she asked about the statues, I told her the story about Our Lady who appeared in white, as bright as the sun, in Fatima, Portugal in 1917, to three young children with a message of hope.

About that time, my husband shined his flashlight down from above her head, she looked up, and I took a photo that captured a marvelous expression with the statue and full moon in the background.

Ellie under the Harvest Moon

Later, she pointed out the clouds on the moon looked like rippled sand she’s seen on the beach. I know sand ripples are called saltation, but what’s the physical process called for rippled clouds, I wondered.

September full moon over the Ohio River

We wrapped up our moon time with a bedtime story or three, only this time around, she read them to me. 

Favorite book by Marianne Richmond

“Be brave to explore in the daring unknown. Be brave to return to the cozy of home. Be brave to BE YOU on your journey begun. Let your heart lead the way…be brave little one!”

See you in October for the Hunter’s Full Moon! xox

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: adventures, full moon walk, moon cycles

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Bex Hall

Her writing has appeared in various online and print publications, most recently in Kerning, a literary magazine, and in the Stories of Hope Collection in Transplant Living. Her artwork has appeared and sold through the Grayson Gallery. She blogs here about creative life and creates in Studio BE overlooking the Ohio River. Her work in progress is a memoir about the secret life of objects.

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