Moonrise ...........And More.................. NW Cascade Wanderings

Sunday-church day! It was a lovely service and worship time.

Once home, I proceeded to work on roasting six pounds of coffee for a customer. I’ll be mailing it out tomorrow.

We then decided to go for a hike. It was sunny for a change but pretty chilly!🥶 when we got to the bend in the road, we turned to head up into the logging area and that’s when I saw the first picture.

We headed on up, and towards the top, I snapped this picture towards, Abbotsford, BC, Canada.

Beautiful!🤩

It must have gotten colder there because of the lack of trees. We found ice in the puddles.

I was surprised to see it.

I asked GROK about the daytime moonrise. This is what it had to say:

The sight of the Moon rising (or being visible) during the daytime often surprises people, because we tend to associate the Moon exclusively with night. However, a daytime moonrise is completely normal and happens regularly. Its significance is mostly astronomical and perceptual, but it also carries some cultural and practical meaning.

1. Astronomical Reality: The Moon is often up during the day
   • The Moon orbits Earth roughly every 27.3 days, but a full lunar cycle (new moon to new moon) takes about 29.5 days because Earth is also moving around the Sun.
   • This means the Moon spends roughly half its time in the day sky and half in the night sky.
   • Except for a couple of days around new moon (when it’s too close to the Sun to be visible), the Moon is above the horizon during daylight hours about as often as at night.
2. When you’re most likely to notice a daytime moonrise
   Daytime moonrise is especially striking in these phases:
   • First-quarter Moon (about 7 days after new moon): rises around noon, is highest around sunset, sets around midnight.
   • Full moon: rises around sunset (so just after sunset, not technically daytime), but the days immediately before and after full moon often show the Moon rising in the late afternoon while the sky is still light.
   • Last-quarter Moon (about 22 days after new moon): rises around midnight, highest around sunrise, visible in the morning sky.
   The most dramatic daytime moonrises occur a few days before full moon, when a nearly full Moon rises in the east in the late afternoon while the Sun is still well above the western horizon.

Interesting….🧐 This next picture was as we came back down from the hike, taken about in the same spot as the first.

A zoomed in shot…..

On the homeward bound trek, @silvertop spied this popping up alongside the road.

Quite the lovely orange color!

My steps for the day:

That’s gonna be it for today. Take care and enjoy the rest of your day wherever you are! 🌏🙏🌏

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First Sunday of Advent
NKJV Genesis 3:14-15

So the LORD God said to the serpent:
“Because you have done this,
You are cursed more than all cattle,
And more than every beast of the field;
On your belly you shall go,
And you shall eat dust
All the days of your life.
And I will put enmity
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed and her Seed;
He shall bruise your head,
And you shall bruise His heel.”

Picture taken by me and altered by cliptocomic app

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