September Days

 Fair on the first of September, fair for the whole month

Autumn Hedgehog and Fruit one of the  Angela Harding prints from her book
'A Year Unfolding'

" I saw old Autumn in the misty morn,

Stand shadowless like silence listening to silence"

Ode:Autumn .Thomas Hood (1799-1845) 

 SEPTEMBER

Now everyday the bracken browner grows,

Even the purple stars

Of clematis, that shone about the bars,

Grow browner; and the little autumn rose

Dons, for her rosy gown,

Sad weeds of brown.

 

Now falls the eve; and ere the morning sun,

Many a flower her sweet life will have lost,

Slain by the bitter frost,

Who slays the butterflies also, one by one,

The tiny beasts

That go about their business and their feasts.

                         Mary Coleridge ( 1861-1907)

It's an amazingly good year for hips, haws and sloes which is a worry because...............

Many haws and many sloes make many cold toes.

The full moon this month is on the 7th and in the past the September full moon was  called the Fruit Moon, Wine Moon or Barley Moon. It is also a total moon eclipse or blood moon. The moon will rise at around 7.30pm and will already be in total eclipse.

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