A waning gibbous Strawberry Moon overhead and the Hancock Tower across the harbor glow in the dawn's early light. Full moon was Wednesday.
"Full Moon Names and Their Meanings" from the Farmers Almanac:
Full Strawberry Moon - June This name was universal to every Algonquin tribe. However, in Europe they called it the Rose Moon. Also because the relatively short season for harvesting strawberries comes each year during the month of June . . . so the full Moon that occurs during that month was christened for the strawberry!
Nuts and bolts from the U.S. Naval Observatory:
Moonrise 9:40 p.m. on preceding day
Moon transit 2:13 a.m.
Moonset 6:45 a.m.
Moonrise 10:48 p.m.
Moonset 7:54 a.m. on following day
Phase of the Moon on 4 June: waning gibbous with 96% of the Moon's visible disk illuminated, reports the U.S. Naval Observatory.
*Scroll down for full text of James Russell Lowell's "What is so rare as a day in June?"
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