ICYMI: On The Road with Mike Drew: By the light of a silvery moon
Mayflies, mostly, moths, a few water beetles. A mosquito or two. They were crawling over the windshield of the truck, hanging from the headliner, wandering along my arms, getting tangled in my hair. A couple of them lit on the bright rear screen of my camera.I’d set up my camp lantern on a picnic table beside McGregor Lake out by Milo to add a bit of light to the scene I had in front of me.
But they would have looked even better with moonlight filling in a bit of the darkness so I watched the weather forecast for clear night skies as the moon grew in brightness and on Monday, it all seemed to come together. Clear sky, nearly full moon.Article contentMcGregor Lake runs mostly in a north/south direction, long and narrow and surrounded by prairie. No mountains to block the view out here.
It had been silvery earlier in the evening but as the sky grew darker, the moon took on kind of an orange glow. It didn’t look bad. In fact, it looked pretty interesting. But it wasn’t quite what I was expecting. I moved around the setup shooting pictures as I went, trying some with the trees lit from below, a couple from the side, but though they looked okay, they weren’t quite what I had in mind. But when I went back to the table to move the light again, I saw something way more interesting.Article content
The wind had all but stopped now and the water was glassy. Yellow, almost golden light sparkled on tiny wavelets and ran along the triangle wakes behind night-swimming birds. There was rustling in the grass beside the road as a jackrabbit, oblivious to my presence, came out onto the gravel and casually bounced away. It was mostly just a dark blob but the moonlight caught the white fur on its haunches and tail.
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