Happy Autumnal Equinox 2024 A.D.!!!

[ConfederateSS]

----------- Happy Autumnal Equinox 2024 A.D. ...
-----------Yes, It's Leap Year.. ... Anyway...
-------------- "By All These Lovely Tokens,
-------------- September Days Are Here...
-------------- With Summer's Best Of Weather,
-------------- And Autumn's Best Of Cheer..."
---------------- As the Leaves of Fall , turn colors...You can smell Fall air as the wind picks up...The Fall Fun is here... Football of all kinds... World Series in store... Pumpkins soon everywhere the eye can see...As the kids look forward to Halloween and candy...A Presidential Election, one for the ages...
--------------- An actually, raking leaves, is fun too...I still rake them into a huge pile...Then jump in them... ... ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion)...

[jusplay4fun]

Officially:

Sun, Sep 22, 2024, 8:43 AM
Eastern Time

Enjoy the Fall, ALL..! Enjoy the Autumn, with all those things that ConfedSS mentioned.

(Enjoy the Fall sounds a bit ominous, but I went for the easy rhyme.)

And, yes, I got the Leap Year reference.

and more:

While the September equinox usually occurs on September 22 or 23, it can very rarely fall on September 21 or September 24. A September 21 equinox has not happened for several millennia. However, in the 21st century, it will happen twice—in 2092 and 2096.

https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/facts-about-september-equinox.html#:~:text=The%20Date%20Varies&text=While%20the%20September%20equinox%20usually,twice%E2%80%94in%202092%20and%202096.

[ConfederateSS]

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--------It is the only season referred by 2 names.... Autumn, Fall... ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion)...

[jusplay4fun]

The origin of the word autumn is not very interesting:

Etymology
Middle English autumpne, borrowed from Anglo-French autompne, borrowed from Latin autumnus (also an adjective, "autumnal"), perhaps a borrowing from Etruscan

but the possible link to the Etruscans is interesting.

I have a mixed view of Autumn; I like football and the cooler weather. I dislike that days are shorter and we know that the cold winter will be soon here in the Northern Hemisphere. I like the start of school, but enjoy the freedom (as a teacher) of the summer. (As I oten tell my students: most of the time, I enjoy teaching most of my students most days.)

On a different note, one of my granddaughters loves Halloween. (I am not a big fan of Halloween myself.) Her current favorite "snuggly" (stuffed toy) is Jack Skellington, from the 1993 movie "The Nightmare Before Christmas."

[Votanic]

M A B O N
A U R I I
B R O K A
O I K O Z
N I A Z Y

Halloween exposes children to the daemonic forces of black magic and Satanism!

Despite these redeeming qualities, it is also just a cavity-causing big-sugar corporation marketing ploy.

Don't believe me? What if I were to tell you National Candy Day is 4 November!!!

S A M H A I N
A G O I N T A
M O N O K O D
H I O S H A E
A N K H R O K
I T O A O N E
N A D E K E X

[jusplay4fun]

Interesting fact(s):

Autumn and fall are used interchangeably as words for the season that comes between summer and winter. They are each used in American and British English, but fall occurs more often in American English. Autumn is widely considered the more formal name for the season. It is the only season in the English language with two accepted names and the two terms were first recorded within a few hundred years of each other. Before either word emerged in the lexicon, this season between summer and winter was known as harvest, or hærfest in Old English. The word is of Germanic origin and meant “picking,” “plucking,” or “reaping,” from the act of taking in and preserving crops prior to winter. In the 1500s, English speakers began referring to the seasons separating the cold and warm months as either the fall of the leaf or spring of the leaf, or fall and spring for short. Both terms were simple and evocative, but for some reason, only spring caught on in Britain. By the end of the 1600s, autumn, from the French word autompne and the Latin autumnus, had overtaken fall as the standard British term for the third season.

https://weconservepa.org/blog/falling-for-autumn/#:~:text=They%20are%20each%20used%20in,hundred%20years%20of%20each%20other.