From Skilled Hands

September Musings

By fromskilledhands ( September 24, 2009 at 7:12 pm) · Filed under Musings

Over at third-story window, ds eloquently writes about September:

“September is an odd month. No longer summer, not truly fall, it is both a beginning and an end. Like March, or even April, it is transitional, but with the wry knowledge of experience replacing the hope of future desire. This is a thirty-day period of contradiction and irony. In some ways, that makes September the most interesting month of all. The trees are beginning to turn, yet summer’s flowers bloom. The days are warm with slowing down; the nights are cool with lengthening. The sun is tilting his head away. September is the first reminder that the calendar year is maturing.”

The sky, punctuated by a few soft clouds, is that infinite shade of azure that is so familiar to those in NE Ohio, . Geese honk their way south; the chickens are beginning to molt, giving us more compost than eggs. Purple asters sway next to goldenrod, and the leaves have begun their descent to the ground.

As I harvest tomatoes, chard, kale, beets and the last straggling beans from the garden, I also notice flowers that have gone to seed juxtaposed against new blooms. Beginnings and endings. To everything there is a season.

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8 comments »

Hay said,

September 24, 2009 @ 7:59 pm

Indeed. Beautiful.
rudeek said,

September 25, 2009 @ 1:09 am

It may be the most underrated month of the year. The week after labor day is perfect for vacations to beaches. With families gone home to school, prices are lower and one can have the beach to herself, or in my case, a few mountains. See you next week!
AnnieH said,

September 25, 2009 @ 11:07 am

A month for nostalgia. Nature shows us, whether we want it or not, life goes on and the world continues to spin and tilt on its axis. After some events it seems incomprehensible. Thank God we get the reprieve of Indian Summer.
larramiefg said,

September 25, 2009 @ 1:54 pm

We do have the loveliest blue skies, particularly in autumn. So enjoy this weekend’s rain, Debra…turn, turn…
Cat B said,

September 25, 2009 @ 9:12 pm

I LOVE September!! Thanks for appreciating!
Pat said,

September 26, 2009 @ 6:56 pm

Lovely familiar song. Life would be dull without the changing seasons but it’s spring that fill me with joi de vivre.
gerry rosser said,

September 28, 2009 @ 9:16 am

Huh? I’m lost. Other than climate/weather every day is the same to me in contemplation.

Then again, I find zero significance in a zillion or so things people discuss as thought they (the things) were fraught with meaning.
fromskilledhands said,

September 28, 2009 @ 10:09 am

The significance for me this year is partly due to the intensity of the past month or so: our daughter was hospitalized, and we had 2 deaths. Makes me think …