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Friday, October 8, 2010

Holding water

At the beginning of the week while doing the laundry early one morning,  I photographed this interesting moon

When the moon hung in the sky like the image above shows , my grandfather used to say the moon is holding water.  Therefore no rain. If the crescent was on top, he'd say it was tipping water and it would surely rain


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The Arabic for water is al-Myāh (pronounced Moya - easy huh?)

9 comments:

  1. I have heard that all of my life, Jo.... When the moon is holding water, that means it is going to RAIN... We need rain here ...... Do a Rain Dance for us please.
    Hugs,
    Betsy

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  2. I love the old folklore :-) The old timers had to be quite observant to learn everything they did.

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  3. That's beautiful, Jo.
    Did your grandfather's weather predictions come true?

    Kay

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  4. Nice shot of the moon. I can't really remember seeing the moon's glow only on the bottom. Hmmmm

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  5. Hiya Jo,

    You're up early for you laundry :-)
    Or is it the way the light goes around where you live? Dark at 18.00 hrs? I remember it from living on the equator.
    Liked your grandfather's rain prediction technique.

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  6. Jo, we are not quite there on our moon phase... will have to play catchup.

    Safe travels back to south Africa. Our neighbors are there now and send us a photo a day. Amazing!

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  7. Wow, I don't think I've ever seen the moon like this! Very neat!!

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  8. http://riacabralphotography.blogspot.com/2010/10/sky-watch-friday-oliver-lee.html

    beautiful, simply just wonderful.
    stopping by from sky watch friday.

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  9. I like what your grandfather said! Nice catch.

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