September

Did you know that September begins on the same day of the week as December every year, because there are 91 days separating September and December, which is a multiple of seven (the number of days in the week)? No other month ends on the same day of the week as September in any year. This month and May are the only two months to have this property.

Well, neither did I, but it’s an interesting bit of trivia, if you go for that sort of thing.

September Showers
by Marieta Maglas

Bronze bells' breeze of September showers,
Freezing fluttering fragile flowers,
Tearing the time's tide tactile sense
May leave long love's lighting lance in tense.
Crying colours of cold old castles,
Stroke their sticky sounds without hassles,
Slipping silken sun into the clouds
Hide misty murmuring meadow shrouds.
Dancing rain drops like bright blue bubbles,
Big black birds bringing flying troubles,
Wild winds waving their wet wings around
Ghostly green girds up for glassy ground.

What about the September showers in Reikorangi? I looked at my rainfall records, and found two lonely entries for the month:

(Above): September 2014 to date rainfall looks impressive, until you look a bit closer and you see that the entries are for 3mm and 2mm respectively. Not exactly what even a desert dweller might call precipitation…