Thanks for all the info.  I’m going to check this out tonight.

Cas

Make sure that you aren’t around any artificial light. I’m trying to figure out where I can go to try this. I used to go to the beach for total darkness, but since they’ve installed bright lights out there, that won’t work anymore.

I wandered out into the back yard last night to see what the bright moonlight would do to my pink sweatshirt. My neighbor’s bright back porch light was on, though. The color in my sweatshirt was definitely washed out under the moonlight, but still discernably pink. The neighbor’s light was bright enough that it probably interfered.

and that is not all the odd things that take place during a full moon!! 

If you are going to look at a rose in the moonlight, you had best go buy one cause I doubt you will find one growing....I think they have all gone to lah-lah land for the winter!!

Better yet, find someone fun, get a bottle of champagne (or something you like) and a whole bunch of roses and do it up right!!  Moonlight and roses and.....;)

What’s Winter? 

Nightime never seemed particularly blue to me, but even in the boonies here there is a lot of light pollution from landscape lighting and such.

But the Hibiscus are blooming in red and hot pink and yellow and the flame orange lillies and red Ixoria and wild gardenia are everywhere.  Maybe I will go out and look.

We still have roses and other flowers here, Cyn. Not for much longer, I’m sure. There are supposed to be some killing frosts next week.

Glenn - nice to see ya. I’m envious of your gorgeous hibiscus flowers, but I’ll have to go look up what Ixoria are.

Let me know if you folks see any colors in the moonlight.

Well, I’m back from my little jaunt out to Maudslay Park where I wandered out through the fields and down a knoll until I stood in the middle of a blue meadow in the moonlight with no artificial light anywhere. The flower I held in my hand was scarlet (taken from home) and though the color appeared washed out in the moonlight, it was clearly a muted scarlet and it cast a clear shadow. My blue jeans were gray and my pink sweatshirt was only faintly pink, more like a pale grayish pink. Everything else around me seemed blue or gray. Interesting.

I forgot to take a book to read.

Maybe the tropical moon is different. I have no trouble seeing colors although they are faded. Even the sky is a milky, dark, slate blue - perhaps because of the humidity and stars are very hard to see.

Last night’s moon was angry yellow-orange comong up over the mangroves, perhaps because of the dust from the Sahara that drifts over the atlantic sometimes. 

Winter moons up north are at a much lower elevation.  Here it’s almost like daylight.