Fall has definitely arrived.
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Butch
Kylemore Abbey - Ireland
Dunguire Castle - Ireland
About Me
- Butch
- I'm a married gentleman of thirty-eight years in the Pacific North West state of Washington. My professions have been in medicine as a Naprapathic physician, music performance as a principal operatic tenor and teaching applied music voice at the university level and privately along with private instrumental instruction. Since retirement from medicine, I began composing and arranging music in the Celtic-American Folk genre and did performance in Irish Celtic Music and American Folk music of which I have recently retired due to my health. My interests are eclectic and I enjoy meeting people and making friends. The musical group I was in when we were performing was Mooney Woods and Nogle and we made two CDs. The most recent released was in December of 2010.
Little Fishing Villiage by the sea.
14 comments:
Aww, I miss Fall
It's snowing at my house this morning. Brutal.
Those are amazing shots! Toronto is very strange, in that our leaves never fall until late, late autumn. Looking out the window now, most of the trees are still fully convered. And today we are cold as hell!
That's why it's called "fall"
Wonder Man: Autumn has to be my most favorite season.
tornwordo: I hope this isn't a sign of what's to come for you.
Al: They seem to fall earlier in the NW than where I grew up in Michigan. Yesterday, I saw frost on the neighbor's roof in the morning.
Joe: I "autumn" leave that one alone. ( but I won't ) ;-)
I love the three leaves on the bench...and the memory of a fourth just beside them.
Such a beautiful, bittersweet time of year. Even your wonderful pink house's color seems a little muted. Isn't it something that we get the chance to wrap things up for the year and start fresh again in a few months!
Greg: I looked at the bench today and the leaves were gone; blown away, my guess. I was tempted to get the riding mower out and mulch the leaves so that the nutrients would go back into the soil over the winter. Perhaps, tomorrow.
Autumn is my favorite one of all the seasons. In the Irish tradition, the Celtic New Year happens on Samhain pronounced,
sow-win, but make it sound as one syllable, (Oct.31)which is also Halloween. In the quest for converts, Christianity chose the next day as All Souls Day to convert the "heathens" and is celebrated at this time as well.
The Celts said that the plane keeping the spiritual world and the living one apart was at its thinnest on Hallowed eve or Halloween. Different celebrations happen during this time with the harvesting of the crops, building a bone fire where bones are tossed into the fire with blessings for protection of their crops and animals. ( Bone-fire is where the term "bon-fire" came. )
The costumes and masks worn today were also worn in earlier times to confuse the spirits the visited from the other world during this night, and before the carving of pumpkins, the Irish used to hollow out and carve turnips. ;-) An empty chair was set at the table for a dearly departed family member during this time as well.
I love this time as the earth prepares to turn in and sleep before awaking for the spring.
This is one of my favorite times of year too, for many of the reasons you mention, dear Butch. We're a bit behind you as far as the falling leaves are concerned, though we're presently being battered by a Nor'easter, so things may look very different tomorrow.
Poor Torn. I feel for ya.
Patrick: I do like the cool nights for sleeping. Up here in the NW the evenings are usually cool all year around but Autumn brings about a different feeling in the air for me of things to come.
I'm never disappointed at a second run through your comments section, Butch, my fine friend. I loved all your bits and info about Samhain. Some of it review, some brand new.
Can't imagine carving a turnip--hard enough cutting them up for Thanksgiving dinner. I bet the results were a bit more stunning than the traditional pumpkin we see today, too!
Greg: Many thanks for your compliments. Every so often there are gems to be found in my Irish blathering. I try and learn something new every day. ( of course, that doesn't mean I will remember it, but it's worth a shot.
;-)
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