An Ode to September

[grantcart]

http://lifeandbears.blogspot.com/2007/09/ode-to-september.html


I love September. It is one of the best months of the year.

The sun shines. The temperature does not soar to unbearable highs but relaxing temperatures where sitting in the sun is enjoyable.

Trees starting to turn, ever so slightly. Giving us a hint of what might be hiding under their greenery

I hear kids walking to school as I laze in my bed early in the morning. Bikes pedalling, scooters zooming, and sneakers sneaking by.

People whistle as they walk. Breathing in the lovely air. Forgetting about what is to come. The cold and snow.

Drums pounding, clarinets tooting, and saxophones squawking as the marching band practices for the big game on Friday. These sounds travel into our outside dining room as we enjoy our nightly dinners.

Friday night games at the high school are tradition in the US. Saturday football is tradition in my living room. All signs of September.

Oversized sweaters and sweater socks. Blankets and lazing - a lovely thought.

September is a time to sit back and relax. How you relax is up to you, but that is some of what September means to me. Slow October's arrival, because with October comes the rake for the all the leaves . . .

In Eastern Washington as Boy Scouts we would spend a lot of time in the forests in September. We would go through and thin out areas finding the sick and crowded trees and take them out allowing space for the healthy trees to reach their full potential. There were a few leafy trees that would turn but we could more quickly see what they were hiding by chopping them down. We cut them up and sold them for firewood to raise money for the rest of they year.

When I got older September was the time when the campaigns took to the neighborhoods. You would find that a lot of people who hung around gossiping and did nothing but complain would make them scarce when the real work was at hand. By the end of September it was easy to see who were the talkers and who were the real deal.

The weather was perfect, warm during the day and crisp at night. Whether thinning out the forests or going door to door September was the month where the the most interesting people showed up and the rest were home gossiping and getting excited about the same ole drivel that was being reissued on 'new' network TV shows. Whether it was thinning or forests or taking the campaigns to the precincts it was in September when you could see who was for real and that has always made it my favorite month.

[Cha]

1. A whole new beautiful month before

us starting now..the kids go back to school and Summer is waning.

My favorite month is August but that's gone and I'm looking forward to what September will bring..something good, no doubt.

Thanks for this Ode to September & your memories, grant.

[RoyGBiv]

2. Wake me up ...

Not directly related, but I like this song and this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wztn3GM7BjE

September has always sucked and been brilliant at the same time for me. It was when I got back together when my friends -- my real friends -- and when all this shit came back to the surface.

Wake me up when it's over.

[Number23]

3. I don't know about where you guys are, but September in Georgia is the hottest month of the year

As nasty hot as August is, September seems just as bad. Almost as though summer is doing everything in its power to hold on and deny the change in seasons.

Here in Aussieland, September is wet, cold and dreary. October is when spring arrives in its true beauty.

[sandnsea]

4. September! Earth Wind Fire

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy-huQAMPQA&feature=related

[RoyGBiv]

5. Yes!

One of the best songs ever.

[Cha]

6. Obama opens long-shot talks on Mideast peace on September 1st..

Hillary has spent months getting them back to the table..

<snip>

"Expectations were low as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas arrived Tuesday for preparatory talks with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has spent months coaxing the parties back to the bargaining table."

<more>
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38948469/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/

[quiet.american]

7. That's a lovely ode, Grantcart. And a timely reminder that typing away on a keyboard --

-- doth not electoral victory make. Time for me to go stop by the campaign office of a local candidate I'm interested in who's running for the State Assembly. As a matter of fact, he strikes me as a young version of Obama in Obama's State Senate days. Well-educated (Yale), humble, but confident, well-spoken and is out there with his campaign workers carrying a clipboard and knocking on doors himself. Hmn, who knows? I may be looking at another future, ground-breaking President-in-the-making! Time for me to get to work.

Thanks for the reminder!

[azmouse]

8. I love September!

Here on the desert it means an end (almost) to the relentless heat of the summer. I love the fall months even though we don't get the brilliant leaves. I love the holidays of fall too - Halloween and Thanksgiving are wonderful!

Bring on September with shorter days and cooler nights!

[Peacetrain]

9. September is my absolutely favorite month.. I love the fall

I was married in September.. just everything good that happens to me on a big scale, seems to happen in September and October.

[POAS]

10. A new month and another promise

kept by Obama. 100,000 troops out of Iraq and a renewed emphasis on Afghanistan.

[FrenchieCat]

11. I was married in September in the Berkeley Rose Garden exactly

26 years ago at the end of the month!

Had rain in the morning and warm weather by noon.
Rain is good luck the day of a wedding, and so it was.

The roses had dewy water drops on them,
and a harpist in the background gave us music
as light as hummingbird wings aflutter.

Large trees all around us still green loomed large
to provide for just the right amount of shade,
and through their leaves peaked a magnificent view of the
glorious but quaint San Francisco skyline.

It was a perfect 80 degrees.

September in the California Bay Area, with our Indian summer
is a pitch perfect month.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

12. One of my favorite songs....

...especially the Willie Nelson version

Oh, it's a long, long while from May to December
But the days grow short when you reach September
When the autumn weather turns the leaves to flame
One hasn't got time for the waiting game

Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few
September, November
And these few precious days I'll spend with you
These precious days I'll spend with you

[goclark]

13. Beautiful words my friend~

My September memories are of Baltimore ~ finally the long hot summer has ended sand Back to School we would go.
Great fun.

September in Michigan ~ the most beautiful leaves dancing their way to the ground.

September in California ~ my favorite.
This year the summer was extemely mild and the living is easy.