Lughnasa Full Harvest Moon Hay wagons filled with laughing teenagers. Plants beginning to go brown in the garden. Root cellars and pantries filling up from a growing season almost over. Thoughts of how to handle snow removal begin to occur. … Continue reading
Fall New (Harvest) Moon Second round of apiguard in the parent and the divide. The top box on the package colony has gotten heavier, but I plan to feed them some more as I will do to the parent once … Continue reading
82 bar rises 29.65 omph ESE dew-point 69 sunrise 6:23 sunset 8:07 Lughnasa Waning Gibbous Corn Moon moonrise 2246 moonset 1316 These are iris rhizomes. I spent the morning and a hour this afternoon digging these up out of our … Continue reading
Charlie, Here are three photos I took last year in La Ciudad de Mexico. One is a portion of a mural by who-else but Diego Rivera. The other two are from that great Museo de Anthropologica. I was intrigued … Continue reading
82 bar falls 30.06 2mph N dew-point 65 sunrise 6:16 sunset8:17 Lughnasa Full Corn Moon This comes from wise woman Susan Weed and her website. Her presentation of Lammas (Lughnasa) and especially her explanation of the link to the Eleusinian … Continue reading
74 bar falls 29.85 0mph NNW dew-point 56 sunrise 6:11 sunset 8:25 Lughnasa Waxing Gibbous Corn Moon The punk hairdos of our Country Gentlemen corn now resemble pubic hair, albiet a dark purple. Sex and the country gentlemen. Though I’ve … Continue reading
79 bar steady 29.85 5mph NNW dew-point 67 sunrise 6:02 sunset 8:35 Lughnasa Waxing Crescent of the Corn Moon “What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up / like a raisin in the sun?” – Langston Hughes … Continue reading
78 bar falls 29.68 2mpn NW dew-point 65 sunrise5:57 sunset8:40 Summer New Moon (Corn Moon or State Fair Moon) NOAA awakened me with its trademark ululation, alerting me to the thunder storm watch declared for Anoka County. Such notices are … Continue reading
82 bar falls 29.66 1mph E dew-point 73 sunrise 5:55 sunset 8:43 Summer Waning Crescent of the Thunder Moon Dead headed the lilium today, their bloom period is almost past. Buddhists say flowers get their beauty from their transience. Makes … Continue reading
75 bar falls 29.89 0mph N dew-point 59 Sunrise 5:49 sunset 8:49 Summer Last Quarter Thunder Moon The garden speaks. Last month, when I dug up my first garlic, it was not a head, but a single large clove. What … Continue reading