db wrote on Dec 17^th, 2012 at 9:12am:

chaga wrote on Dec 15th, 2012 at 12:40am: Back to the moon thing, I remember it as...left lit last, as in the left side is lit on a waning moon...does that make any sense? Yes thanks but as about much sense as OSB did for me. Everything helps someone a little when the know their desired direction.

You probably use the "db" method to tell waxing from waning
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Since I know the moon moves east relative to the sun, I can just figure it out from there. (The moon HAS to move in that direction: if it moved west, same as the sun, it would eventually catch up and then it would get burnt up, right?) ;D

On the OSB thing, looking again at the picture, I was surprised how subtle the letters are. On the 16+ species of fritillaries we have here in the Canadian Rockies, the "OSB" is much more obvious.

DD, what are your frits in Texas like?