Moon Walk

Our skies were mostly clear these past two nights so I took advantage to stroll around.

The moonlight was so intense some colors returned to the evening, the sky slate blue, the grass deep olive green but only when out from under the trees. All the shadows remained shades of gray. The few clouds were bright chalky white above and mithril silver below.

The moonshadows were almost as deep as the ones from a nearby streetlight but more delicate. When the hazy edge of a cloud partially obscured the moon, the moonshadows faded although the moon itself stayed visible. Otherwise, the only way I could identify the lunar shadow was because it was shorter, the moon being higher in the sky.

Some birds began singing, the opposite effect from a solar eclipse when the sudden loss of light sends animals into night time mode. If the night-blooming jasmine had been ready I might have stayed out there 'til sunrise.