Outdoors North
It was in the very early morning hours when I slipped outside the back door to the yard to look at the “blood moon,” a full lunar eclipse which casts the moon’s face in a rusty red tint. Just a couple steps out there, I was disappointed to see the moon shrouded in a thick white woolen sock’s worth of clouds. It was only visible in an opaque fashion. Clearly, this was not the grand event I had hoped for with a big, fiery blood moon shining above my head in the night sky, big and bright. I could see that the lunar eclipse had begun with a dark shadow covering the bottom ...
