Have you ever wondered about that expression, once in a blue moon or perhaps used it yourself ? According to Encyclopaedia Britannica, the term blue moon originated from the 16th-century expression “the Moon is blue,” meaning something that was impossible. For two years following the eruption of
the Krakatoa volcano in
Indonesia in 1883, people around the world reported seeing strangely coloured sunsets and a Moon that appeared blue. With this possible, but uncommon, occurrence, “once in a blue moon” came to mean rare rather than impossible.
Doreen Lobo
Super Blue Moon image captured on 20 August 2024 by Adrian Lobo outside our home in CT, USA.
Great photo...it does not look too blue to me though !!
ReplyDeleteThanks 🙏 interesting to know why it is called that when it is not blue 👍 it was magnificent witnessed from the air on my way back to london .
ReplyDeleteThanks Rafah and Fouad. You are right, it did not look too blue... perhaps the clouds? Doreen
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