Every morning, I open the balcony doors to change the air. The first thing I do is look at the sky. And that’s how I saw the Strawberry Moon. It’s known as the Strawberry Moon because it comes in June and June is traditionally the month for picking strawberries. Every year in Texas, for example, they have the Poteet, Texas Strawberry Festival.

In Italy, the Strawberry Moon will reach its exact peak of fullness on June 30th at 1:56 AM but the moon has already started to puff up. It’s the first full moon after the summer soltice and will hang low while travelling the sky.

I keep reading that, although the moon is called strawberry, it doesn’t turn pink. But who wrote this hasn’t seen the moon I saw this morning from my balcony. The moon I saw looked like a faded strawberry full of light. And, as it wasn’t fully round, it rather looked like a strawberry, too!