October

October’s End

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When I am alone in my garden in late October I often think about music, especially Ralph Vaughn Williams’ elegiac settings of English folk tunes.  My favorite is the haunting “Fantasia on Greensleeves,” because the musical images just seem right for the season of variable weather, early sunsets and mornings when the grass glistens with … Read more

October

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I have always loved the October light, which is so distinctive that novelist John Gardner, who had poetry in his soul, used it in a book title.  On any sunny October Saturday, the light is mellow and golden, illuminating the plants in ways that are absent in summer.   While it gilds the landscape, the light … Read more