![]() ![]() ![]() I always associate Neil Young with a much earlier time, and although I recognised this song, I had never thought of it as being attached to the 1990s. Something that surprised me when doing a modicum of research for this post was that the album “Harvest Moon” was released in 1992. ![]() Instead I just want to listen to the beautiful sound of his voice, those soft brush strokes, and the steel guitars. I do have a couple of Neil Young anecdotes in my back pocket, but I don’t think this is the time or place to share them. (Wonder if the Native Americans also did that by the light of this brilliant Harvest Moon.)īut back to Neil’s wonderful song. I am still hoping for a miracle tomorrow night but not counting my chickens. Fortunately I have no harvesting to be done, because for the second month in a row, there seems to be total cloud cover around the time of the full moon. Also, due to a highly scientific quirk relating to orbital distances and other complex laws of physics, at the peak of the harvest farmers can work late into the night, as this moon rises at nearly the same time every evening giving them all that extra light. Had it not landed that way, it would have been called the Corn Moon, but no great songs as far as I am aware about corn (unless you know differently), so I’m mighty glad it’s worked out this way.įor the Native Americans, this was the month when corn was supposed to be harvested. This year we reached the equinox, that pivot point in the year after which we can expect more hours of darkness than light in our days, on Sunday the 23rd Sept. Having said that, the Harvest Moon can occur in either September or October, as it’s the name given to the full moon that lands closest to the autumnal equinox. Well, there could really only be one featured song for this month – Neil Young’s Harvest Moon. To accompany the post I always include one of the numerous songs that have been written about the moon and its many foibles. Since discovering that all full moons have a name, given to them by the Native Americans who kept track of the months by the lunar calendar, I have written about each one as they appear in our skies. ![]()
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