La Bella Luna
Whenever I see a big moon I think of the movie “Moonstruck,” one of my favorites. “La bella luna,” the characters say, when an impossibly large moon beams through their windows in Brooklyn.
Last night an impossibly large moon beamed through my windows in Virginia. It shone in a near-cloudless sky. It stole the show.
I thought of other moon viewings, of how this heavenly body can comfort and caress us.
The good folks at the Capital Weather Gang explained that this year’s Harvest Moon appears large — is in fact a super moon — because it is both full and as close to the earth as it can be. It is at its perigee, a scientific term that contains an exclamation.
“Gee!” is right. It was quite a moon. And it will be almost full for the next two nights.
4 thoughts on “La Bella Luna”
What a lovely full moon photo and post. I love the moon. It looks the same tonight in Paris, where I live. Years ago when I was 16 and on my first trip to Europe (and away from home for the first time), I looked up in the sky one night and saw the full moon over Madrid. It immediately made me homesick since I knew that same moon was shining in Cleveland over my parents’ home. A universal experience, our moon, isn’t it?
Thank you! Your comment reminds me of a little poem from the old days, “I see the moon, the moon sees me, and the moon sees somebody I want to see…”
I made sure to look at the Harvest Moon last night, October 8, thanks to this blog entry, which led to my enjoyjent of the luna but also to my enjoyable memories of a shared favorite movie, “Moonstruck.” You clever writer. Gee! Loved your wit.
Isn’t it a great movie?! And the moon has continued to wow us these last few days.