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Autumn Equinox 2021 in the Northern Hemisphere arrives at 3:20 PM today.One day the summer storm is gathering,Golden Summer Evening – Barry Hiltonthe next thing you know the Autumn Equinox has arrivedAutumn Glows – Barry Hiltonand with it the passing of the dusty greens of late summer. At first they are replaced by autumn’s radiant display of hues. This season of ever shortening days and longer nights requires a sorting down, a retention of bare essentials. Thus all that finery is tossed to the wind, left to crinkle, brown, decay and nourish the barren earth. Their hosts tuck themselves down...

As a partially vaccinated America reopens and tries to return to its pre-pandemic ways, several infectious-disease experts and an epidemiologist agree that a major surge of COVID-19 is possible next winter. They disagree, however, on how likely that is and what might cause it. The prediction that we might be heading for another COVID surge was made 2 months ago in a speech and a JAMA article (coauthored with Peter Piot, MD) by Christopher Murray, MD, director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington in Seattle. Murray's colleague Ali Mokdad, MD, professor of...

Donald Trump was adamant in stating that, if a second wave of the coronavirus hits the United States, he won’t shut the economy down again. CNBC reported on the president’s visit to a Ford plant in Michigan. “People say that’s a very distinct possibility, it’s standard,” Trump said when asked about a second wave during a tour of a Ford factory in Michigan. “We are going to put out the fires. We’re not going to close the country,” Trump said. “We can put out the fires. Whether it is an ember or a flame, we are going to put it...

     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,...

U.S —As the nation plunges headlong into another fall season, the FDA has officially recommended pouring all pumpkin spice flavored beverages down the nearest drain immediately. Stressing that they are “all just completely abhorrent and disgusting,” a spokesman for the agency confirmed Wednesday that the only safe and honorable course of action when confronted with a pumpkin spice latte, coffee, or beer this autumn is to quickly and without hesitation open the beverage and dump every drop of it down a nearby drain or toilet. The FDA further advised caution when dumping the drinks, warning against accidentally spilling or splashing...

This Monday marks Labor Day, a time when we transition from summer to fall, schools begin and football moves from preseason to regular season. For me, a southerner, it also is the time to store my white shoes and handbags and to pull out my fall clothes -- as soon as the temperatures drop. The first Labor Day was celebrated on Sept. 5, 1882, in New York City. It had nothing to do with sales, shoes or football. Instead, it involved more than10,000 people who had taken an unpaid day from work and marched from City Hall to Union Square...

With unseasonably warm summer temperatures persisting over much of the world this year, it seems hard to believe that this is the week of the Harvest Moon, the full moon nearest to the autumnal equinox. Saturday, Sept. 22, was the first official day of autumn in much of the Northern Hemisphere, even though it will still officially be summer through the daylight hours. The moment of the equinox — the official end of summer and beginning of autumn — will not arrive until 9:54 p.m. EDT. East of the prime meridian, where the equinox occurs after midnight, the first day...

There are lots of things you can do with pumpkin, besides pie and Jack-0-Lanterns. I like these recipes that can be served inside of the cooking-pumpkin that they came out of to start with. From 'My Recipes' here is Pumpkin Soup with Pumpkin-Seed Mint Pesto: http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/pumpkin-soup-pumpkin-seed'The Kitchn' has '10 Things You Can Cook Inside a Pumpkin', and the Savory Stuffed Pumpkin with Sausage and Gruyere looks great: http://www.thekitchn.com/10-things-you-can-cook-inside-a-pumpkin-211927The HGTV email newsletter this week had instructions for making these gorgeous gilded pumpkins out of the 'faux' pumpkins you can get at the craft store, as well as some easy carving templates:...

What makes it “harvest”: It’s the full moon closest to the autumnal equinox. The reason the moon has been looking so big this week is that it’s rising around sunset. The bright moon comes up in a twilight sky, and at a time when more people are likely to take notice of it near the horizon.... ... . On average, the moon rises about 50 minutes later each night — so if it rose at, say, 6 p.m. on Tuesday, it would rise at 6:50 on Wednesday. But around the equinox, because of the position of the moon in relation...

The Harvesters, Pieter Bruegel the Elder I’ve been trying to find something new to do with pork, and this recipe from ‘Caprial’s Bistro Style Cuisine’ looked just right for Fall: Pork Tenderloin with Apple Chutney (serves 4) For the Apple Chutney: 2 tsps. Olive Oil 1 Red Onion, julienned 2 cloves Garlic, chopped ½ C. Apple Cider 1 T. Brown Sugar 2 T. Sherry Vinegar 3 Granny Smith Apples, peeled, cored and sliced 2 tsps. Chopped Fresh Thyme 1 tsp. Chopped Fresh Marjoram 1 tsp. Crushed Green Peppercorns Salt 1 Pork Tenderloin, about 2 lbs. 2 tsps. Dried Thyme Salt...

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I love Autumn,the weather changes,the leaves turn,This is mine.Bobby Goldsboro - Autumn of My Life - TV Show (Live)

The Avon lady who visits my office building brought us the new catalogs this week; and I noticed that Avon is currently offering cookie cutters for making a cookie version of the sugar skulls, or ‘calaveras’ that are traditional for the Mexican holiday ‘The Day of the Dead’. I didn’t know much about this holiday, and while doing a search on it I happened to find a really wonderful website/blog devoted to decorated cookies: Sweetsugarbelle.com. Along with all the other fantastic cookies, one entry includes a tutorial on making the skulls; and anyone who likes decorating cookies will love this...

One day in the first week of November, Pete Pringle and his brother, Luke, were talking about car accidents involving deer. Pete and Luke work at Pringle Auto Body, 2720 S. 34th St., Kansas City, Kan. It is a family business started by their grandfather in 1968 and now is run by their mother. It was natural for them to have a conversation on deer accidents this time of year. It’s when a higher percentage of collisions involving deer occur because it’s the breeding season for deer. “We are getting into that season,” Pete Pringle said. Bucks and does will...

When I was growing up and ever since, toward the end of August there is always one day when I can distinctly sense the coming of Fall, even though it is still Summer. It may be a change in the slant of the light that alerts me, or a faint smell of decomposing leaves that have died prematurely; sometimes it's been a fresh wind with a whisper of change on its breath, after a hurricane has grazed the Mid-Atlantic and cleaned the air of the long, hot days of the Summer. But I always realize two things on that day:...

[UPDATE: Tech in Asia has updated the article to emphasize that suicide is only suggested and not certain] The last few weeks have been dismally littered with two things. The virtual losses of virtual wealth from virtual currency speculation and the very real losses of very real humans with very real senior financial services positions. Sadly, as NewsWatch reports, tonight sees the two trends converge as the 28-year-old CEO of Singapore-based Bitcoin exchange First Meta has been found dead. The exact reason that may have led to the suicide is not known, and whether the Police have concluded that the...

ost people think that Springtime is the time to start growing that vegetable or herb garden. But there are many types of plants that should mainly be grown during the cooler months. Fall is a great time to try your hand at growing leafy greens, and that makes this a great way to save some money on produce. If you end up with a good harvest, you'll have a bountiful source of vegetables while other people are paying higher prices for greens at the grocery store. Here are 6 cooler weather plants you may want to try your hand at...

Clayton, N.J. Gloucester County officials arrested two teenage brothers in connection with the death of 12-year-old Autumn Pasquale, CBS Philly reports. County prosecutor Sean Dalton said at a press conference Tuesday that Autumn, who was was last seen Saturday on her bicycle, was lured into the home of the 15- and 17-year-old brothers to obtain parts for her BMX bike. The crime was allegedly committed in that house. Dalton said the boys' mother contacted police about posts she saw on her son's Facebook page. "A preliminary cause of death is blunt force trauma consistent with strangulation," said Dalton, according to...

Henrhyd Falls, Wales Kanba Falls, Japan (click for full size)

These versions are not clickable to be bigger; if you go to Mangelsen's Web site, you can click on them and see larger versions. I found these in the Online Gallery, either New Releases, or Landscapes/Flowers/Trees.