Monday...

No writing over the weekend, which was mostly occupied with various Lughnasadh celebrations. Weather continues too hot for comfort here, but looks like we might gt some thunderstorms soon, which will cool things off a bit. I'm having trouble imagining rainy pleasant Ireland while sweltering here...

Sunflower season now:



And some of my large tomatoes are finally showing color...

-GRG

Lammas

Also called Lughnasadh, this is another pre-Christian high holiday which was taken over by the church. Lammas marks the end of summer and the beginning of the harvest season. Approximately half-way between the midsummer solstice and the autumn equinox, Lammas is also the time when the days are becoming perceptively shorter and the nights longer and darker. When I lived in Alaska, I noticed this was the time when the middle of the night was dark enough to see stars overhead once more. (For the curious, I lived in Juneau for five years - fairly southern as Alaska goes - and Juneau is about the same latitude as Brora in northern Scotland.)

That's all I have time for - I'm off at dawn for Pennsic War. While I'm gone, a guest blogger may be filling in for me from time to time.

But that's a story for another day.