Hello Autumn. Nice to see you again.
Man — after a long day at the office, it was so nice to be greeted by a wonderful full autumn equinox moon tonight. Came home and my wife baked a fresh pumpkin pie. Oh man. I am feeling very autumn-y!
The equinox marks a shift in season — where both night and day fall roughly into equal lengths. The “harvest moon” refers to the when the autumn moon is at its brightest, when the farmers would work by its light to bring in the harvest… I wasn’t doing any harvesting tonight, but rather doing a lot of watering. Tonight the harvest moon and autumnal equinox fall on the same date – and this won’t happen, I’m told until another 19 years in 2029.
I just took this photo a few minutes ago; it is a photo of the autumn harvest equinox moon from my deck.
When I think of autumn (Sarracenia wise), I think of leucophylla/leucophylla hybrids, seed pods, and the seed pod harvest …and speaking of harvest, I did a little bit of harvesting a couple of days ago. Here’s a quick mosaic taken with photos from the handy dandy iPhone reflecting some of this…
[Clockwise from top left: group shot | S. leucophylla ‘Hurricane Creek White’, division from a seed grown plant before the HCW site was destroyed | Handful of Sarracenia pods | A pocket full of fresh harvested pods in envelopes to extract seed later. Yes – Cargo pants come in handy in situations like this.]
