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September 22, 2026

Today it is Autumn! (Autumnal Equinox)

It seems that the official start of each season used to be a bigger deal. There wasn’t even a Google Doodle for it today.

Maybe we just have so much going on and so much on our minds that this thin divider is too insignificant, compared to all the “important” stuff. Is it really that remarkable that in the Northern Hemisphere, days have been getting shorter and nights have been getting longer for three months, and that on this day the earth has more or less equalized its orientation to the sun. (In the Southern Hemisphere, it’s all reversed, this is the start of Spring (Vernal Equinox), and we wonder 1) how can Christmas arrive in Summer? and 2) why don’t all those people down there just “fall” off the earth? Oh yeah, gravity.)

The first thing listened to this morning was Vivaldi’s Autumn from The Four Seasons. Thank goodness at least Vivaldi paid attention.

Today it is Autumn. Enjoy.

February 8, 2026

Real spring (not false spring) has arrived in early February

I have lived in a variety of places with hard winters, where occasionally in February it seemed like spring but was actually false spring, followed by more, sometimes much more, hard winter.

Here is not one of those places.

The Winter Olympics are happening now. Some places share Winter Olympics-type weather, some people prefer that, some people tolerate it, with the promise of spring arriving soon or eventually. Just not yet.

Some places, like this one, rarely have anything like hard winter, though on the other hand we know that hard summer will arrive eventually, just not yet.

The birds and the plants know. So do I.

If you are somewhere in the Northern Hemisphere where winter has more than a month to go, spring is coming. If you’ve never believed anything I’ve said, believe that.

April 2, 2017

Spring: Max Richter Recomposes Vivaldi

Recomposed by Max Richter – Vivaldi – The Four Seasons, Spring

“British composer Max Richter takes Antonio Vivaldi’s masterpiece “The Four Seasons” for Recomposed into the present and makes it accessible in new ways to a new audience. At the same time, he treats the original version and its history with respect, which means that also experienced listeners of classical music can enjoy “Vivaldi Recomposed”.”

Listen. (Listen also Summer and the other Four Seasons.)