Tonight's full Moon has a special name--the Worm Moon. It signals the coming of northern spring, a thawing of the soil, and the first stirrings of earthworms in long-dormant gardens. Step outside tonight and behold the wakening landscape. "Worm moonlight" is prettier than it sounds.

Yikes!
Taken from http://spaceweather.com

Looks like those worms are going to have to wait a bit longer, around here the ground is still covered with snow.

Originally Posted by Kaika

Looks like those worms are going to have to wait a bit longer, around here the ground is still covered with snow.

Oooops! Maybe they have small little shovels to get out, lol. If I was a worm I would certainly wait for the next full moon!

LOLOL
Really cute drawing Kaika!

Thanks
Though, the pic doesn't look like the outdoors right now, because I forgot to add the tree's and it's raining outside anyways...it reminds me of when I was a kid I brought a worm home and made them my pet (Named it Squiggly, and he lived inside a jar of dirt on a shelf for one night and the next morning he disappeared...whatever happened to Squiggly is still a mystery to me)

Oh, poor Squiggly! Something similar happened a long time ago with one of my sister's fish... it was a fantail goldfish. There he was in his tank and on the next morning it had disappeared. We thought it jumped outside the tank but we looked everywhere and never found a thing. We use to say that it was the black hole of the house the one responsible for this. You know the black hole every house has? The one that takes away your pen when you more need it? Or the one sock to make the pair? Maybe that's what happened to Squiggly

[seeker1950]

I've noticed the bright moonlight as I've put my dog out to go potty during the middle of the night...too sleepy to appreciate it and stop and look, other than a mental recognition that there is a full moon which seems rather remarkable. Thanks for the information that it is a "worm moon!"
Patty

Yes, I also found this full moon specially brighter than other full moons. But I couldn't see any worm, lol.
I assume the dog in your picture is the one you take out. He/She is a beautiful dog!

[Junerain]

I think I have fallen into that same black hole, or something black and hole-y............emotionally have fallen..........

for June

I remember on our way home from the movies the day after the worm moon it was mostly full but I could tell in was waning a little, my friend says now that the moon is full, she can see the "rabbit in the moon" while western mythology says that when you look at the moon you see the face of the "man in the moon", but it's interesting that in East Asian cultures they see a Rabbit in the moon (also called the Jade Rabbit) my friend knew about this but says most of the time she can't see it. On an interesting note Aztec folklore said that when the moon was created it was as bright as the sun so in order to make it darker a rabbit ran across the moon and you could see it's tracks on the moon.

((((((((((((( Junerain )))))))))))))

The good thing of the black hole is that it has a way out .
Hang in there!

-Cat

[TheArdentSavage]

Worm moon, interesting words. =P

I saw the moon full for the past few nights, it always amazes me how bright it can be! It was red-orange the other night too...

That's interesting, the only yellow-orange moons I see are the harvest moons. (I was disappointed as a kid when I found out a blue moon wasn't actually blue)

Originally Posted by Kaika

for June

I remember on our way home from the movies the day after the worm moon it was mostly full but I could tell in was waning a little, my friend says now that the moon is full, she can see the "rabbit in the moon" while western mythology says that when you look at the moon you see the face of the "man in the moon", but it's interesting that in East Asian cultures they see a Rabbit in the moon (also called the Jade Rabbit) my friend knew about this but says most of the time she can't see it. On an interesting note Aztec folklore said that when the moon was created it was as bright as the sun so in order to make it darker a rabbit ran across the moon and you could see it's tracks on the moon.

Of course of the aztecs, here in Mexico we talk always about the rabbit on the moon and not the man's face on it. I can see the rabbit but have never been able to see the man. It is curious that the East Asian cultures and Aztecs saw the same thing on the moon. There's actually now a debate if the Asians were the first ones to land on America... way before Spanish did. There are clues that this may be what happened. Cool, isn't it?

Originally Posted by TheArdentSavage

Worm moon, interesting words. =P

I saw the moon full for the past few nights, it always amazes me how bright it can be! It was red-orange the other night too...

Have you seen the raising moon, how it is really big? Did you know that it is an illusion and that our mind misinterprets the picture and sees it that big even when it isn't? To discover the true size of the moon, you can use a digital camera and take a picture of it, and you will find that this raising moon is just as the same size as the moon at any other time! We are tricked by our own brains, lol.

Originally Posted by Kaika

That's interesting, the only yellow-orange moons I see are the harvest moons. (I was disappointed as a kid when I found out a blue moon wasn't actually blue)

I was also disappointed as a kid about the non-blue blue moon . I thought it was a cool thing for the moon to change color at some time of the year.