Lugnasa \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 \u00a0Garlic Planting Moon<\/p>\n
Senescence is on my mind. \u00a0No, not in the OMG I’m 65 and I’m senescensing before my very eyes sense, but in the leaves have begun to fall, crops have matured, the angle of the sun has changed dramatically and we’ve lost just over 2 hours of daylight since June 22nd sense.<\/p>\n
Even though the temperature changes over the last decade or so point to a lengthening of fall here in Minnesota, it comes nonetheless. \u00a0Vegetable plants, annuals for the most part, or at least treated as annuals, have a growing season. \u00a0As a plant nears the end of its growing season, the vegetable gained over the season matures. \u00a0The potato plumps up and hardens its skin. \u00a0The garlic gains a strong outer cover and firms up its cloves. \u00a0The peppers turn red or grow large. \u00a0Leeks grow fat and white. \u00a0Then, the plant begins to die.<\/p>\n
Some people prefer summer and the heat, the swimming pool and barbecue, driving around with the top down, dining outdoors, going up to the cabin. \u00a0Others love spring with its joyous burst of vitality after winter cold. \u00a0As for me, I prefer the fall. \u00a0Growing darker. \u00a0Cooler. \u00a0The garden wound down. \u00a0A time for turning inward, focusing on the inner and the inside work.<\/p>\n
With Mabon, the Fall Equinox, we celebrate the second harvest and with Samhain, Summer’s End, we mark the harvest season’s close. \u00a0After Samhain comes my favorite period of the year, Holiseason. \u00a0It begins with Thanksgiving and ends on Epiphany in the new year.<\/p>\n
Leading up to it trees change their colors, leaves fall, mums and asters and clematis and monkshod bloom. \u00a0Bird migrate and the sky takes on that clarity, that blue clarity, a northern sky promising chill nights and warmish days. \u00a0Great hiking and biking weather.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow is Labor Day the unofficial beginning of fall and the official beginning of school. \u00a0Have a good holiday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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