The Ripe Corn Moon
Posted: 07/26/2010 Filed under: Nature | Tags: 2010, Algonquin, Buck Moon, Cherokee, Colonial America, full moon, Hay Moon, july, Mead Moon, Ripe Corn Moon 4 Comments »Tonight is July’s full moon, which is known by many names in the Northern Hemisphere. Algonquin tribes called it the Buck Moon, in honor of the fact that antlers begin to appear on the foreheads of buck deer this month. (We’ve seen evidence this in our own backyard!) To the Cherokee, July’s moon was the Ripe Corn Moon — and if you’ve tasted fresh corn lately, you’re likely to agree on the aptness of that name. To Colonial Americans, this month held the Hay Moon, and to the medieval English, the Mead Moon.
A toast to tonight’s moon! With mead, if you’ve got it.
Wow was it a ripe corn moon for my family this last weekend. Our Grandmother had a small but fruitful garden and use to cut corn off the cob and freeze it to make the most delicious cream corn for birthdays & holidays. Since then my mother and all us siblings are keeping this tradition and gather once a year to prepare this corn. We purchased 50 dozen ears of corn from a local corn farmer (the best corn you can find in Kansas) and proceded to shuck, blanche, cut off and bagged 100 quarts. It’s a process but the family time spent together along with having that fabulous corn at holidays is very well worth it. Yeah for the ripe corn moon!
What perfect timing! I love it! Your family tradition is such a great one — it makes me happy to think of you and your mom and siblings working together to lay in all that corn for the upcoming year! Indeed, yea for the ripe corn moon!
The full moon that night was so gorgeous I simply had to take pictures of it. They turned out to be all blurry, shaky and sad, but taking them enabled me to spend good 10 minutes admiring how beautifully bright and round the moon was.
And then today, I had the chance of tasting the real Indiana corn on the cob – and can I just say how divine it tasted?
I just thought I’d share these useless bits of information
Oh, they are not useless bits of information — they are wonderful observations!
I, too, often try to take full moon photos, with equally dismal results. The moon seems to insist on just being admired, not captured, eh? And maybe that’s best, in the long run, anyway. =)
Mmmm… Indiana corn on the cob. Divine indeed!