You know the saying, "Once in a Blue Moon"? Well I knew that it meant some kind of rare event and yesterday I found out why...
My friend texted me last night to ask if I'd seen the blue moon. So Rico and I went outside to take a look. There was a pale yellow fullish moon obscured by clouds and Rico said, it doesn't look very blue and I said, well you know the clouds make it look kind of blueiesh. But then I thought, wait a minute - he's right! So I looked up 'blue moon' and this is what I found:
In recent decades many people have begun using the term 'Blue Moon' to describe the second full moon in a calendar month.
It's very rare that two occur in one calendar month.
My friend texted me a few minutes later to say whoops! - blue moon is actually Friday - tonight!
Hope you can enjoy the 'blue moon' tonight! You won't see another one until 2015.
4 comments:
Thanks for the comment. All the things one can learn.
We couldn't see the moon tonight - too cloudy.
Mom
It looks pretty beautiful - blue or yellow.
We were hoping to see that blue moon on our infamous hike. Sadly, we didn't get to see much of it!
But you certainly got to see a lot of other stuff!!
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