Diane’s Backyard (Boca Raton, FL)

It is about shadow and light and a disappearing act by the Moon but since we know how the “magic” works  (unlike our ancestors) we can appreciate the beauty.

A lunar eclipse occurs when the moon passes behind the earth so that the earth blocks the sun’s rays from striking the moon. This can occur only when the Sun, Earth, and Moon are aligned exactly, or very closely so, with the Earth in the middle. Hence, there is always a full moon the night of a lunar eclipse.  This year for the first time in 372 years, the  lunar eclipse coincides with the winter solstice, the time at which the sun is at its southernmost point in the sky.