Full Beaver Moon

So today is officially the full moon. I almost forgot since it is just a Monday and at 6:00 p.m. I am normally inside whipping up dinner. But with the time change I was getting home and saw the incredible moon glowing yellow against the sky. I pulled in the driveway, ran inside to get my camera and drove up the street to get a good shot. Batteries were dead. Back home, rinse, repeat. And I am so getting a new camera because why is this shot so dark??!! It's called the Full Beaver Moon because this is the time to set beaver traps before the streams freeze over to ensure a winter of warm furs.
(After a beaver coat was about 5 years old it became the perfect fur for a beaver hat--they sold tons of these in England in the 1800's).

I never knew until this past summer how significant fur trapping and trading was to our country's Western Expansion. I never knew till this year that the Gateway Arch in St. Louis represented where Western Expansion began with the Lewis and Clark Expedition. I never knew that Sacagawea's son, Jean Baptiste, went to live in St. Louis with William Clark when he was 6 years old and when he was 18 he toured Europe for 6 years. Once back in the U.S. he became a fur trapper. I guess you cannot take the mountain out of the man.

But back to my drive home at 6:00 p.m. Apparently this neighbor was a very busy beaver today:
(It's November 2nd and they are lit for the Christmas Holidays).