January’s full “Wolf Moon” reached peak illumination on Monday, January 17, 2022 at 6:51 P.M. CST. It rose from the northeastern horizon around sunset. However, I didn’t have a clear view over the tree line until 8:30 (an hour and a half later) when I took the above shot. Lore has it that January’s full Moon came to be known as the Wolf Moon because wolves were more likely to be heard howling at this time.

Since there are no wolves where we live, I feel "Center Moon" (used by the Assiniboine people of the Northern Great Plains) fits better. The name refers to the idea that this Moon roughly marks the middle of the cold season.

Other than that, the US is currently dealing with an out-of-control tsunami of COVID cases (two years after the disease first was discovered to be in the USA). Again, I photographed another full moon from the “safety” of home. In a perverse way, counting the full moons in the sky is sort of like a prisoner counting the marks he made on his jail cell wall…