Beltane\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Last Frost Moon<\/p>\n
This northern spring, a season all its own, as is the northern summer, has turned cold and wet.\u00a0 Again.\u00a0 The cold weather vegetables have had a near perfect early growing season.\u00a0 This combination of occasional heat followed by cold and rainy days marks the uncertainty, the ambiguity of our spring, often a time when the weather is neither this nor that, a variety.<\/p>\n
Later,\u00a0 in another three to four weeks at most, we will trend hot and hotter, finding ourselves by mid-summer in heat rivaling our southern states.\u00a0 As the days heat up, the vegetables and the fruits will flower, become pregnant, then fruit, giving us the food we love:\u00a0 tomatoes, beans, potatoes, apples, pears, cherries and currant.\u00a0 Perhaps this year, with the transplanting even the gooseberries will yield.<\/p>\n
Then, by mid-to-late August, the evenings will begin to cool, though the days remain warm.\u00a0 The sky will become an impossible blue, a color found only in the heart and the mind’s eye.\u00a0 This sky absorbs all earthbound thought and transforms it into the higher concepts of heaven.\u00a0 This signals the onrush of the harvest season.<\/p>\n
Blessed be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Beltane\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Last Frost Moon This northern spring, a season all its own, as is the northern summer, has turned cold and wet.\u00a0 Again.\u00a0 The cold weather vegetables have had a near perfect early growing season.\u00a0 This combination of occasional heat followed by cold and rainy days marks the uncertainty, the ambiguity of our spring, … Continue reading A Northern Spring<\/span>