Lughnasa College Moon
The rain and cool have come. The sun is lower in the sky. We will have lost 23 degrees of declination from June 20 to September 20. We have already lost 2 hours and 25 minutes of daylight June 25 through yesterday. The slide toward the Winter Solstice has proceeded and will accelerate on Mabon, September 20th, when the hours of night once again exceed the hours of daylight.
All of this is good news. Especially this year. Both Kate and I are ready to have a smaller property with less growing season work. Not because we don’t love it, but because we want more time now for other matters, like grandchildren and our creative work. The coming of the fallow time means the last garden here and movement toward a new year. 2015 will find us creating a new outdoors life in the Rocky Mountains.
