The full moon rises on Thursday, May 23 with morning minus tides. This moon is called the Hare’s moon in European traditions in which the hare symbolizes rebirth and regeneration after snows melt and the growing season begins.
The first shades of summer browns are touching the grasses. Rattlesnake grass, with its distinctive seed pods reminiscent of a rattler’s tail, are among the first to turn golden brown. Later-blooming wildflowers such as lupines are out,…