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December 16th The 350th Day of the Year The simplicity of winter has a deep moral. The return of nature, after such a career of splendor and prodigality, to habits so simple and austere, is not lost upon either the head or the heart. John Burroughs Sunrise/set 7:50/5:11 Day's Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

December 1st The 335th Day of the Year The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? Percy Bysshe Shelly Sunrise/set: 7:37/5:11 Day's Length: 9 hours 34 minutes Average High/Low: 44/29 Average Temperature: 36 Record High: 67 - 1970 Record Low: 4 - 1964

November 16th The 320th Day of the Year He comes, -- comes, -- The Frost Spirit comes! let us meet him as we may, And turn with the light of the parlor-fire his evil power away.... John Greenleaf Whittier Sunrise/set: 7:21/5:18 Day's Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

November 1st The 305th Day of the Year All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction which thou canst not see. Alexander Pope Sunrise/set: 7:04/5:33 Day's Length: 10 hours 29 minutes Average High/Low: 57/38 Average Temperature: 48 Record High: 79 - 1950 Record Low: 20 - 1906

 

October 1st The 274th Day of the Year Hail, old October, bright and chill, First freedman from the summer sun! Thomas Constable Sunrise/set: 7:31/7:18 Day's Length: 11 hours 45 minutes Average High/Low: 72/50 Average Temperature: 61 Record High: 93 - 1897 Record Low: 31 - 1895 Weather

September 16th The 259th Day of the Year A farm or nature journal becomes an autobiography, the act of watching becomes watching the self and forms the self out of and in front of the world. The journal states that I am this person who is observing leaf after leaf, field after field. Following and recording these seasons, I change into myself.

September 9th The 252nd Day of the Year The body sheds summer like the trees do, and whether we are prepared for the change or not, our adapting flesh propels the psyche into new winds and colors and scents which totally alter the cognitive and emotional process. bf Sunrise/set: 7:10/7:54 Day's Length: 12 hours 44 minutes

September 1st The 244th Day of the Year First September touching puffballs-in-the-grass (like moons) and fondling yellowed sassafras. Sunrise/set: 7:02/8:07 Day's Length: 13 hours, 5 minutes Average High/Low: 81/60 Average Temperature: 70 Record High: 97 - 1953 Record Low: 44 - 1967