Chinese Moon Festival: 2014

It's Chinese Moon Festival today.  It's on August 15th each year based on the lunar calendar.  For some unforgivable reasons, I did not take any pictures of the "full" moon yesterday, and obviously, the name of the game today is work.  So, I don't have any full moon pictures for 2014 -:(((.

However, I found a picture taken last year when I was visiting Inner Mongolia in China.  It was a full moon on 10/18/2013, and the skies in the desert were unbelievably clear.  I remember being taken to this famous "dead tree forest" in the desert, where hundreds of acres of dead trees laying around silently with different sizes and shapes.  I was deeply touched by the deadly quiet surrounding and started to imagine the place from a hundred years ago when the trees were all alive... It was the golden season there in October, the trees, the leaves, the water, the soil, the grass, the birds, and everything -- so harmoniously composed, like a beautiful poem.

Now, a hundred years later, water disappeared, trees died, leaves gone, only the lonely tree trunks are still standing -- in the wind, in the rain, in the cold and in the heat...  The moon would rise and set every day and turn full every month -- this is the circle of life, circle of the world, and circle of the universe!

Picture 1 = Full Moon in Twilight (the reddish colors of the tree trunks and the sky looked totally unreal -- but that's the way it was)

Picture 2 = Same kind of trees today (胡杨林) -- 20 miles from the "dead trees forest" 

Inner Mongolia, China
October 18, 2013