Tonight was the final supermoon of 2016, and the only one I was able to photograph this year. Its appearance took me completely by surprise because I’d been walking Ice the Dog shortly before, and we were caught in a short and sudden downpour. After we arrived home, I saw the moon out the window and grabbed Paulo’s camera with the long lens to get this picture.
I found a poem to go along with it:
The Moon And Sea
Whilst the moon decks herself in Neptune’s glass
And ponders over her image in the sea,
Her cloudy locks smoothing from off her face
That she may all as bright as beauty be;
It is my wont to sit upon the shore
And mark with what an even grace she glides
Her two concurrent paths of azure o’er,
One in the heavens, the other in the tides:
Now with a transient veil her face she hides
And ocean blackens with a human frown;
Now her fine screen of vapour she divides
And looks with all her light of beauty down;
Her splendid smile over-silvering the main
Spreads her the glass she looks into again.George Darley (1795–1846)
