Just once in a Blue Moon - London 2012



'Its blue!'
The second full moon in August. 
August 31, 2012 by Susie Mallett

A Blue Moon event!

The Blue Moon did not appear orange as the first full moon of the month had –

http://www.susie-mallett.org/2012/08/spontaneous-infectious-excitement.html

 But it was not blue either!

I caught the first full moon on camera as I cycled home from work in Nürnberg on a gorgeous summer evening when the temperature was still about thirty degrees Celsius.

I was very lucky to catch a shot of the Blue Moon at all as it peeped out between the English rain-clouds on a very dark evening that had a distinct feel of autumn about it.

I have my fingers crossed for fairer weather for my less-than-once in a Blue-Moon trip to the Paralympics on Monday. My excitement mounts and it is lovely to be in the country, and occasionally in front of a television, to catch some of the Olympic excitement.

I can also get up to date with the names of athletes and various sports that are new to me so that I am a little more knowledgeable when I get off the 05.30 train from Norwich at Stratford and make my way to the Olympic Stadium. As I wrote most of this I read online that Oscar Pistorious had set a new 200 metres world record knocking almost one-and-a-half seconds off the old one but later he got beaten to silver medal position in the final.

I cannot wait to sit in that stadium and hear the roar of the crowds.

I cannot imagine when I will ever get the chance to attend a Paralympic Games again, at the moment Rio seems a long way away! So I will certainly make the most of my once-in-a-Blue-Moon experience on September 3, 2012. 

Smiling at the moon

"The man in the moon is singing"

21 October, 2010, 18.00 MET

"Then the bus arrived"

Walking home after a nice day at work

Sometimes it is good to be too tired to cycle, especially when my camera is in my pocket and my notebook is close at hand. Below is what I wrote while standing in the middle of a field, and above you can see what was in the camera.

As the pictures show it has suddenly got very cold, snow has been forecast, in fact on higher ground the first sprinkling of white dust can be seen.

From my notebook

"Twilight is lovely, an amazing violet sky. To the east a full moon is rising fast in a perfected graded pastel sky and behind me to the west a red ball of sun is fading in a sky criss-crossed with vapour trails. Very cold."

From home

An hour after I had written my notes about the dusky sky, I received a message from home, England, that told me:

“Sky is a wash of pale orange and duck-egg green. Very nippy.

PS

The reason that I put up so many pictures of the huge, rising moon is because I was so surprised at the speed at which it was moving as I stood waiting for the bus. I had never realised before that the moon comes up so quickly. It was appearing just as quickly in front of me as the sun was disappearing behind me. I was really glad that I had left the bike at home.