[Willie Green]

Link to The Old Farmer's Almanac.

There are only 2 days left until it's officially Autumn.
And we have another 132 days after that until Groundhog's Day.

Anybody know what the wooley-bear caterpillers look like this year?

[Aracelis]

Ah, folks...take time to revel in Nature!

[netmilsmom]

Oh, Oh I know! My daughters saw a Wooly Bear for the first time this summer. (Being from Northern Ohio, where the Wooly Bear Festival is handled, I was thrilled). This one had a medium black band. I forgot what it meant though. Can you enlighten me?

P.S. Being 5 & 3 they named it Samantha

[yankeedame]

Anybody know what the wooley-bear caterpillers look like this year?

I don't know, but I've been told the buckeyes have covered themselves with a might thick shell this year.

[tet68]

The goddess Demeter lost her beloved daughter, Persephone, when the king of the underworld abducted her. Demeter was so grief-stricken that she neglected the plants of the Earth, which began to wither.


In one version, the leaves on the trees saw her despair and turned red, orange and gold to try to lift her sadness. When it deepened, they, too, despaired and the leaves dropped to the ground.

Of course Demeter appealed to the other gods and got her daughter back but because she had eaten a pomagranette seed
she had to spend half the year underground, hence the seasons.

Ah fair Demeter, whose golden hair falls in rich tresses as only a goddesses does............

"........and where else was there ever a greater disparity between seeing an hearing........"Aristidies the Rhetor.

I'm pining for the kykeon, myself. It's been a long time, over two thousand years! But then I'm epoptes and can wait.