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A "Strawberry Moon" yields an unexpected crop

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Last night, the “Strawberry Moon” directed its milky white tractor beam directly into my eyes and woke me up so abruptly that I thought the smoke alarm had gone off.

I took this picture at 4am. (Yes, those are the painted-over windowpanes of my very old house.)

What are we to make of this moon?

It is not strawberry colored, or shaped like a strawberry.

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