Posted on 09/22/2019 5:43:36 AM PDT by NOBO2012
When Summer gathers up her robes of glory,
And like a dream of beauty glides away.
I LOVE to wander through the woodlands hoary
In the soft light of an autumnal day,
When Summer gathers up her robes of glory,
And like a dream of beauty glides away.
How through each loved, familiar path she lingers,
Serenely smiling through the golden mist,
Tinting the wild grape with her dewy fingers
Till the cool emerald turns to amethyst;
Kindling the faint stars of the hazel, shining
To light the gloom of Autumn’s mouldering halls,
With hoary plumes the clematis entwining
Where o’er the rock her withered garland falls.
Warm lights are on the sleepy uplands waning
Beneath soft clouds along the horizon rolled,
Till the slant sunbeams through their fringes raining
Bathe all the hills in melancholy gold.
The moist winds breathe of crispèd leaves and flowers
In the damp hollows of the woodland sown,
Mingling the freshness of autumnal showers
With spicy airs from cedarn alleys blown.
Beside the brook and on the umbered meadow,
Where yellow fern-tufts fleck the faded ground,
With folded lids beneath their palmy shadow
The gentian nods, in dewy slumbers bound.
Upon those soft, fringed lids the bee sits brooding,
Like a fond lover loath to say farewell,
Or with shut wings, through silken folds intruding,
Creeps near her heart his drowsy tale to tell.
The little birds upon the hillside lonely
Flit noiselessly along from spray to spray,
Silent as a sweet wandering thought that only
Shows its bright wings and softly glides away
Posted from: MOTUS A.D.
Was it ever less than a treason
To go with the drift of things,
To yield with a grace to reason,
And bow and accept the end
Of a love or a season?"....Robert Frost...
fall is my favorite time of year...I really hate the heat...
and even though I miss terribly the beautiful colors of the vast upstate NY forests, here in the west, there is something about the never ending fields of wheat swaying in the breeze....
No raini since mid August here, either. Last week in August was mild but nearly every day has been over 90 degrees all September.
Something else for Al Gore to worry about (Days are getting shorter? Pole reversal crisis?)
As the original article by Richard Strimple revealed:
I started paying attention and created computer models and sure enough I was right! We are losing daylight at an astonishing rate. Each day we are losing approximately 2 minutes of day light and my computer models predict total darkness by next July.
I'm way ahead of all of y'all.
I've been working on the daylight loss problem (can't reveal how or with what), and a solution is due in three days, guaranteed.
Keep taking your measurements, and if the days don't start getting longer again by Monday, 12/22, I'll gladly refund whatever money you sent me.
As the original article by Richard Strimple revealed:
I started paying attention and created computer models and sure enough I was right! We are losing daylight at an astonishing rate. Each day we are losing approximately 2 minutes of day light and my computer models predict total darkness by next July.
OK, folks, since our initial solution in December 2008 (which we have religiously tweaked twice yearly to maintain daylight equilibrium), we here at Bubba-Gump Software® have come up with a semi-permanent solution to the Daylight Change Crisis (DCC). Our semi-annual tests with Daylight Equilibrium Adjustments (DEA) appear to solve both the Daylight Loss Crisis (DLC) over the continental USA, as well as the Perpetual Daylight Problem (PDP) over Australia and other southern nations.
We have prepared both a manual and an automated solution to the problem. Recent research has revealed that even when we become immersed in total 24-hour darkness in the USA, we can load up forty jetliners to fly to Australia or some other southern country for the needed daylight for about 2000 people each trip, for the low, low price of $200 Million $2 Billion per day. Unfortunately, this solution will only benefit the privileged few, and the vast majority of taxpayers will be left in the dark, literally.
Our more cost effective solution provides an automated method for maintaining Daylight Incremental Equilibrium (DIE) for all the people living in the USA, rich and poor, and for those in the southern countries, all for the even lower, lower semi-annual cost of $200 Billion $12 Trillion.
As with our previous prototype testing, our solution is guaranteed to stop and reverse the Daylight Loss in the continental USA by December 22 each year. Further adjustments will need to be made in the Spring of each year to ensure we don't overshoot into 24-hour Total Damn Daylight (TDD).
We believe the taxpayers will be grateful for the Assured Reasonable Balance of Daylight and Darkness (ARBDAD), and that they will happily fork over the maintenance fees for our technical assistance.
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