March Photo Submission Request: The Sky and the Moon

~ melaniereynolds
Moon Balance By Melanie Reynolds Washington State, USA

Hello Nature-led friends!

Yes, a late request for photo submissions! I have faith some of our regular people can pull it off and perhaps a few new people are ready to join in the fun too.

Kerfe, our friend in New York, USA had recommended the “sky” as a worthy nature topic for photo submissions and Ms Scarlet from Devon, UK agreed. That’s really all the motivation I needed because taking pictures of the moon during “daylight” hours is one of my favorite things. So, for the month of March please pull out your cameras (or find a previous picture) of the Sky and/or the moon. Any time of day or night. What does the sunrise or sunset look like from your corner of the world? Or maybe you’ve captured some really cool cloud formation or the aurora borealis or stars. When you think about it, there is a lot going on in the sky above us.

Morning Rise Moon By Melanie Reynolds Washington State, USA (Taken this morning of Mar 15, 2023)

It makes me unreasonably happy to see the moon during the day, which is probably weird, right? I consider the moon a friend of the earth and the creatures upon it, like me. We both hang out in the same little slice of the universe and the moon influences life in both subtle and not so subtle ways just like the people, plants, and animals in our lives.

It has inspired song, words, and behaviors way before the existence of human civilizations. In the presence of the moon, I don’t feel alone. Does that make me a lunatic? In these modern societies in which we live we’re all crazy here, but the moon is not to blame. The moon is a companion who asks nothing of me. It doesn’t sell my personal information or tell me to trade my soul to the devil for cheese. Oh, how I do so love cheese though!

The moon hangs out in that big scary place we simply call “sky.” I find it frightening to think about it too much, all the space beyond the sun and moon, beyond the stratosphere and the clouds. I’ve written about it before in this previous post: https://nature-led.org/2021/01/27/too-much-sky/

Here’s a previous poem that Patricia shared and translated from a friend in Colombia about the moon: https://nature-led.org/2021/05/02/es-luna-llena-it-is-full-moon/

Finally, two more pictures of the sky to share with you.

Storm Clouds By Melanie Reynolds Washington State, USA

I took this picture last week, Monday, March 5th, 2023, when we had heavy clouds and strong winds. I think it was a glancing blow from that first atmospheric river that hit California recently.

and this…

A fun picture I took a few summers ago. I texted it to Patricia with the comment: “How pilots double date.” Ha,ha,ha.

Planes Flying Side by Side By Melanie Reynolds Washington State, USA

In the meantime, I’ll figure out the next few months of photo submission requests. Suggestions are always welcome and appreciated!

Submission Guidelines

The Sky and/or the Moon:

Due: March 31st

To be posted on: April 1st (No fooling!)

The Fine Print:  Photo Submissions Guidelines

Email to: natureledlife@gmail.com, Subject line: Photo Submission for [month] (Multiple months of photos in one email is fine.) Image: Attached as a .JPEG or .PNG file preferred. Captions each picture: Subject in the photo (if known), State/Providence & Country, Date (optional). Your name as you want it to appear, Your blog link (if you have one.) 

Feel free to add any interesting notes about a picture. I love interesting stories behind things! Let me know if it’s just for ‘my eyes only’ or if I can share any part of it with your photo. Pictures must be your own or you have permission from the Photographer to share it. All copyrights belong to their respective owners. This is a free, fun, community site about nature. Non-commercial and ad free.

19 thoughts on “March Photo Submission Request: The Sky and the Moon”

  4. Melanie – As you know, I live in Florida and trust me – it is ALL sky! Because we are a peninsula the sky changes hour to hour – and our clouds are incredible. If we were not the Sunshine State – I think the Great Cloud State would be fitting. Mary

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    1. Thanks Mary! Are you going to send me a pic then? If you read the old post linked, you’ll see it was Wayne that first told me/understood my panic about “Too much sky.” I’d like to think in the world of Tolkien I could have been an Elf, but I probably would have ended up a too tall Dwarf! Ha,ha,ha My fellow mountain huggers being what they are!

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      1. Melanie – Indeed – camera at the ready – I will (promise) to send pictures. What a family we are – yes, I can imagine Wayne saying that. M

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  5. Excellent!!!
    I feel the same way about the moon during the daytime, it’s a comfort. I’m not sure I’ll get a chance to capture the moon in the sky before the 31st March as we are predicted to have heavy cloud cover for the foreseeable – thankfully I have plenty of ordinary sky shots in my library that I can send to you!
    Sx

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  6. I will endeavour to send you a photo or two this month, particularly as I neglected to in February. (I did take a photo on my walk to work of a small fern growing out of a wall two days before the deadline, but then forgot about it. When I did eventually look at it, the photo was all burred an useless anyway!)
    As Ms Scarlet has said, cloudless sky may be in short supply, but I’ve got many sky & moon shots from previous Marches, I’m sure.

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