First full hairst moon

Last night we had the first full moon of the Hairst (Autumn) and this year it also happened to be the perigree syzygy (Supermoon).

I took a walk outside at 1.30am and it was beautiful, the moonlight so bright you could almost see the colours of the day. The night was still and I could see my footprints in the damp grass behind me, I walked through the parks and down to the sea, the further I got down the hill the more I noticed the beasts and animals were wild, set off by the moon. There were hardly any stars on show, the big dipper was there, and several others shone dimly through the silver lit sky. It was a beautiful night, but quite an eerie one too. To stand by the shore on a night so still, when by the glow of the moon you can see everything around you but still everything is covered in the shadows of a monochrome landscape.

I went to sleep around three in the morning, it was hard to fall asleep finally. When I woke it was twelve the next day, I think it was a catch up after the 10 days of Screenplay.

This morning when I awoke the sun was shining brilliantly, a day of blue skies, however there was a feel of a Winter's day when the sun hangs low in the sky giving everything an intense but distant light. As if the strength of the moon still hung in the air and the sun hadn't quite shone through it yet.

This afternoon I went for a walk up Sansfield hill, a beautiful, large, heathery hill which is divided up by burns cutting through the peat ground. At the top you can see so much of Shetland, certainly all of the West Side, the sun shone directly on me and still there was an almost mist in the air, even on such a bone dry day. Last night I thought the night of the moon was the most impressive light I've seen, on such a veev (clear) day but with such a distant, almost melancholic light, now I'm not sure.