Morning Eclipse.

An Eclipse, A Buzzard and a Wolf....

"For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams." (Edgar Allan Poe)

The eclipse happened here in the West-Country at 9.30am on Friday 20th March. The last eclipse in 1999 I was on the beach along the south coast. This time I wanted to be in the woods and fields with Okami to experience this eclipse. 

From 9.20am after the usual coffee trip the sky began to dim, almost like dust yet different. As we walked through the woods, heading to the common for more views the the birds fell silent and all became still. Incredibly apocalyptic. We met no other dogs or owners and the world felt like just ours. Though only an 80% lunar eclipse it seemed significant to nature. Everything simply stopped. The minutes were beautiful and peaceful.

I saw thee once, once only, years ago,

I must not say how many, but not many.

It was a July midnight; and from out

A full-orbed moon, that, like thine own soul, soaring

Sought a precipitate pathway up through heaven,

There fell a silvery-silken veil of light,

With quietude and sultriness and slumber,

Upon the upturned faces of a thousand

Roses that grew in an enchanted garden,

Where no wind dared to stir, unless on tiptoe,

Fell on the upturned faces of these roses

That gave out, in return for the love-light,

Their odorous souls in an ecstatic death,

Fell on the upturned faces of these roses

That smiled and died in this parterre, enchanted

By thee, and by the poetry of thy presence.

by Edgar Allan Poe.

During our walk that day we also managed to see the buzzard who has made the woods his territory, gazing down at Okami pondering over what he was. The crows have begun to nest too in a family group.