Late last evening just as I was about to take my shower, Cass ran inside the house excitedly, exclaiming “mum, come and look at what I saw, come. The moon is so huge!”
With a headache from lack of sleep, I reluctantly went out to check out the moon. What greeted me was a super huge moon in the clear sky. What a spectacular view it was. I quickly ran back inside the house to grab my phone and the phone camera cooperated with me this time; I managed to snap quite a clear photo of the Strawberry Moon. I later found out from a member in our neighborhood Facebook group that the supermoon in June 2022 is named Strawberry Moon.
What is a Strawberry Moon?
The Strawberry Moon doesn’t look like a strawberry, neither is it pink in colour. This name has been given to the full moon by native American tribes. According to The Old Farmer’s Almanac, “This name (Strawberry Moon) has been used by Algonquin, Ojibwe, Dakota, and Lakota peoples, among others, to mark the ripening of ‘June-bearing’ strawberries that are ready to be gathered.
This will be the first of the three summer supermoons.
Did anyone sight the Strawberry Moon too last night?
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