We’ve got a deluge of rain on the way, which we desperately need, but I imagine that the garden will be beaten down after it subsides so I thought I’d take some of the last pictures of the season. I also had a rare afternoon in the Back Bay of Boston so I took some window-box pictures as well: some in the full flourish of summer, others harbingers of fall. I’m always melancholy in late September, more because Salem’s witching season begins assertively on October 1 than because it marks the onset of autumn and colder weather. Prepare for that prolonged rant over the next few weeks–or stay away! I am working on a few interesting (at least to me) Witch City posts for October, but no doubt I’ll also retreat and focus on the more distant past as well. Or leave town.
Still-flowering Boston, September 28:
And then Home: lots of lavender and catmint and a very fluffy rose, anemones, perennial agertum (a great fall plant, and much more blue than it appears in this photograph); Trinity in the garden, like a ghost of our dearly-departed Moneypenny.
September 30th, 2015 at 9:41 am
It gets worse every year. More and more of the town engulfed by this nonsense, and those of us who need to travel in and out of town forced into more and more delay and aggravation, not to mention … it’s not the tourism per se, it’s the KIND of tourism really….
October 1st, 2015 at 1:18 pm
I’m with you…
September 30th, 2015 at 3:11 pm
What is the proper term for the wrought iron bars spanning those windows?
October 1st, 2015 at 1:18 pm
Good question! I shall endeavor to find out.
October 1st, 2015 at 3:58 pm
Thank you! I have a window that needs one of those.
October 1st, 2015 at 4:14 pm
All I can come up with is window “grates” or “panels”. Salvage would definitely be the way to go–go to Old House Parts up in Kennebunkport.
October 1st, 2015 at 4:17 pm
Thanks. I’ve heard them called grills too. I just thought there would be a more flowery name for them perhaps.
October 4th, 2015 at 7:35 am
Now I understand why you’ve been reading a grimoire: you’re looking for a spell to drive the “witch tourists” away! Unfortunately, the range of spells in grimoires tend to follow predictable lines; I’d suggest a “make your enemies flee” spell, myself.
October 4th, 2015 at 8:40 am
Ummm…now you’ve got me thinking–I do think there are spells to drive away “unwanted pests”.
October 4th, 2015 at 10:04 am
I did once recite am incantation from the Lemegeton in class. It was to improve memory, which was a frequent failing of that particular group of students. 🙂
October 4th, 2015 at 5:57 pm
Who can get Bingo first? No cheating!
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