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      The Moon in La Cañada at First Light

      • Reg Green
        • September 4, 2020
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      PHOTO REFLECTIONS

      a moon over power lines

      The moon rises — sorry, sets — over the Gould electricity substation in La Cañada at first light (Photo – Reg Green)

      Irving Berlin, who wrote both the tune and the lyrics of White Christmas and dozens of other songs that no one who heard them could ever forget, wasn’t always right.

      By Reg Green

      In the show “Annie Get Your Gun,” Annie is content because, though she’s short of money, she has the sun in the morning and the moon at night. But anyone passing the Gould Mesa electricity substation at dawn today, had the moon in the morning. a smidgen less than full and lovely sight.

      Let’s hope he was only half-wrong: the sun at night would upset a few plans, wouldn’t it?

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