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“May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night and a smooth road all the way to your door.”

“Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day”

“Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night”


Hal Borland quotes

“Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding”


German Proverb quote


“To remain young while growing old is the highest blessing”


German Proverb quote


“Happy is the one who forgets that which cannot be changed”


German Proverb quote


“Silence is a fence around wisdom”


German Proverb quote

“To change and to improve are two different things”


German Proverb quote



“No one is luckier than him who believes in his luck.”


john7 German Proverb quote



“The old forget, the young don't know”


German Proverb quote


“Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses”


German Proverb quote

“Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten.”


German Proverb quote


“Envy eats nothing but its own heart”


German Proverb quote

















Written by Fraser Cain
A lunar month takes 29.53 days. This is the amount of time it takes for the Moon to complete a cycle through all the phases, from new moon to full moon and then back to new moon again. This is very close to the length of a month in the Western calendar, which usually have 30 or 31 days. Every month usually has one of each of the phases. So a typical month will have a new moon, first quarter, full moon and last quarter moon. But every now and then, a month will have two of the same phases. When a month has two full moons, the second one is called a "blue moon".



Blue moons are rare, and that's where the phrase comes from, "once in a blue moon". How rare? They always happen once every 2-3 years (2.72 years, to be exact). It's this second moon in the month that's considered the blue moon.



Does the blue moon actually turn blue? No. A blue moon is exactly the same color as a regular full moon – yellow.



The Moon can turn blue when there's a certain amount of dust or pollution in the air. The extra dust scatters blue light, making the Moon appear more blue. For example, the Moon appeared blue across the entire Earth for about 2 years after the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883.