Tangled Branches: Cultivated
happenings in and around my zone 6b gardens in northern Virginia and in central Virginia
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
Lammas, Lughnasadh, Risshuu
Is the beginning of August the beginning of autumn? It must be - traditional calendars in both northern Europe and northern Asia think so. I've always been fascinated by the cycles of the year as described by calendars, festivals, almanacs, books-of-days, etc., but they all seem so rooted to a vanished way of life. Our current position in the suburban seasonal cycle is Back-to-School-Sale, soon to be followed by He's-on-Vacation-So-It-Will-Have-to-Wait, followed by Labor-Day-Weekend, followed by....well, you get the idea. It reminds me of a Max Headroom episode where they were celebrating the ancient festival known as Sky Clearance, when all the space junk rains down on Earth.
More naturally, it's butterfly and hummingbird season here in the garden. Various swallowtails and a monarch were visiting on Sunday, but I didn't have the camera out. A hummingbird moth came by later; I did have the camera with me, but the battery died just after I snapped a couple of blurry pictures. The real hummingbirds are out there too , but I despair of ever photographing one. They seem to be liking the Salvia guaranitica especially this year. Saturday, I got a few photos of some skippers and a cabbage white <...yawn...>.
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