- Moondance

I do love walking down to get the paper. Today the pre-dawn sunlight had already washed all the stars from the sky, which was itself turning from gray to blue. The waning crescent moon and two planets still held enough light to be seen: Venus low in the east and a smaller Jupiter higher to the west ... the moon almost, but not quite aligned between them, the points of the crescent at 10:00 and 4:00.

I remember this, holding it in memory for today's patch ...

Patch #4 vintage table cloth linen
indigo dyed at Maura Ambrose's workshop

along with a single sunny patch, anticipating the day ahead.

Don did some moonlighting of his own for Christmas ...

creating wooden nine-patches, unaware that this would be the first full moon Christmas since 1977 ... the year of our wedding on December 30th.

As he did with the wooden block houses, one Moondance was saved for us ...

This one, because I loved how the moon had skated over the edge ...