Beltane New (Solstice) Moon
The old moon went to black and the new moon in waiting, the Solstice Moon, has not yet appeared. The weather stayed on the cool and cloudy side today though it did get a bit warmer later.
Kate and I had first fire in our new fire pit area, dining on a delicious dinner of cowboy 
caviar, chicken wings and a broccoli, bacon and raisin salad while part of a dead black locust tree burned. The crushed gravel we had Javier put around it will have to be modified in some way since it tends to slough when walked upon. Could have foreseen that but didn’t.
We sat there, watching the smoke rise among the ash trees around the border of what used to be a compost pile. Our woods surrounds the area, in essence a new outdoor room tucked into the front edge of the trees near the grandkids playhouse. Looking back into the woods I kept wondering what it would have been like, looking into woods like these and not knowing where they ended. You can’t even see our property line, so the woods could be impenetrable for all that can be seen.
Afterward we watched two more episodes of the Swedish crime drama, Wallander, not the Branagh one, but the original. I like the Swedish one better. In it Wallander has more personality in it than the depressive, uncommunicative character portrayed by Branagh.
