Moonlight

I went out for a little walk on the path beside the river. The moon is approximately full and the sky is clear. The moonlight was filtering through the trees, in places gently lighting the tree trunks on the other side of the path. It's a very pretty effect, and it's interesting how we can easily be unaware of these things nowadays. We go from lighted building to lighted parking lot, turn on the car lights, drive out on a lighted road, and, maybe, if we're attentive, we happen to notice that the moon is full. Not as if it matters, though. Not like it would in the absence of all the electrical lighting.

It's never especially dark in the city, but the unlighted path with tall trees on each side, leaves still on them, is pretty dark except for the moonlight, which, once you adjust to the dark, lights the way with the dim, dappled light. If it were winter, with bare trees and bright white snow-covered ground, it wouldn't be dark at all.