Kazy used to love the mid-Autumn Festival 中秋節!
In Hong Kong, he loved it because they had the best mooncakes. But in Japan, because he loved the way the moon would play hide and seek behind the clouds…
Oh, those Japanese autumn skies !
Every year, I would put pampas grass in a vase and buy some o-dango and we would wait for the moon to come out and play. One year, when he was around four, he grabbed the grasses and started waving them toward the sky, “come out a play, come out and play!” he screamed at the moon.
And the moon did just that!
Fast forward ten years.
Would you believe we can have mooncakes DELIVERED from a famous Hong Kong bakery that has a branch of their shop in Pasadena!
As always, I arranged mooncakes and bought sake (This year was plum flavored whiskey!)… But my astronomer, who long ago figured out that the top of my head makes for the perfect tripod, decided to balance his heavy astronomical binoculars on top of my head to try and get an iPhone shot of the moon…
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Moon-viewing with my astronomer
Clear LA skies-
Binoculars propped atop my head
–The moon laughs out loud
Dewdrop World 