October. The calendar turns once more and all thoughts of summer are put aside. A time for preparing for the coming winter and enjoying the coolness of autumn with all the color of the changing leaves and the softer light. A time for reflection on a year that has went by all too quickly.
The woodcut shown here is one made for the month of October in Edmund Spenser’s 1579 work, The Shepheardes Calender, which was a collection of 12 pastoral poems depicting the month-by-month life of a shepherd of that time. I would include a few lines but, quite honestly, I struggle to get through any of Spenser’s archaic verse and don’t wish that on anyone on a Saturday morning. I do like the woodcut, however.
Here’s a little easier to absorb interpretation of the month. It’s hard to be;lieve it has been 30 years since the album October was released by U2. Here’s the mood piece that serves as the title track for this album.
Redtree Times 
What a beautiful video. I’ve never heard of the song – but I really haven’t followed U2.
I’ll not moan and groan any more than I have – but gosh, it’s just miserable to wake up and discover that the absence of a summer necessarily means the absence of a fall! I don’t think there’s any autumn color in the whole state of Texas – we’re crispy and brown!
Hope your fall is as beautiful as the video.
This year our fall has been wet and cold thus far but I’ll take it over what Texas has recently endured. Hoping things swing soon in a better way.