The older you get, the more people you know and, inevitably, some of them lose touch.  These days, Facebook is a great way to avoid that, but in the dim and distant past, friends would never have had that opportunity.  When i was thirteen years old and leaving Canada, where we had lived for three years, i made a pact with my best friend that we would look at the sun every day at noon so we could always be doing something together.  In those three years abroad, i had forgotten how hit and miss the opportunites were to see a noonday sun in Britain!!  I also hadn't reckoned on the five hour time gap, so despite my early efforts, we probably never got to do this simple thing together.  However, I never forgot the pact, although did lose touch with my friend - and that was only one of the many regrets I had on leaving Canada.  It is a truly beautiful country.

Recently, I put all forthcoming full moons in my diary in the hope of photographing them.  Everyone was raving about the size of the harvest moon this month, so I was ready...  However, I was fiddling around on Facebook when it rose and when I suddenly remembered, it was already high in the sky, very bright and disappointingly small.  I'm setting an alarm for the next one!

However, when I put this pic on Facebook, a friend in Arizona said she saw it too - so the notion of looking skywards still works!

So this is for all friends scattered around the northern hemisphere.  Friendships, like celestial bodies, never change...

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