I always seem to be caught off guard by the full moon as it sneaks up on me month after month.

You’d think by now I’d have its cycles in my bones but despite its clockwork movement I am always caught by surprise when the full moon rises from the eastern skyline.

As tonight’s moon rose, shrouded in silky clouds, I was taken back through time to a similar evening long ago when a similarly draped moon enchanted me for the very first time.

Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Day 912, Enchanted’ 15s f/2.8 ISO320 200mm