http://www.wral.com/lifestyles/goaskmom/blogpost/8107335/
I like this description of the August moon from today's N&O:
America's natives and the early settlers knew the last full moon of summer, tinted with the sultry, smoky haze of August, as the time of the red moon.
The full moon of August is nature's notice that a busy summer will soon be drawing to a close, a signal that our world is inexorably tilting into another season. Late August days suggest fulfillment, a ripening world where the sunflower nods in golden bloom and wild scuppernong grapes, full and sweet, hang heavy, waiting to be picked. Pecans are near full ripeness. In the fields, squash and pumpkins await harvest.
This is a season of sunflowers and school buses. Leaves hang limp under a still-sweltering sun, and in the early evenings contented swallows sweep the skies.
Tonight as the sun drops beyond the western horizon, low in the eastern sky the moon will arise and reveal (weather permitting) its incomparable beauty - much like the moonflower, another lovely light of a summer evening.
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