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Post by lagatta on Oct 4, 2009 12:55:12 GMT
Great old song.
One from here, "Lune d'automne. See the harvest moon arrived a wee bit earlier that year, at the end of September. If the songwriter was accurate, the seasons have changed at it is the 4th of October and very few trees have turned red or golden:
La lune d'automne
Michel Rivard
Septembre rouge Aux mille draps blancs Le vent les bouge Moi j'ai huit ans Rue Marquette À la radio de mes parents J'entends chanter Le Fou Chantant "L'âme des poètes" Le gros Raymond M'appelle dehors "Viens jouer dans la cour J'ai des pétards" La ruelle s'étire à l'horizon On va raser les murs On va sauter les clôtures Jusqu'au Japon
{Refrain:} Et la lune d'automne Brillera pour moi ce soir Et mon coeur de pomme Rougira d'espoir Dans l'nord d'la ville D'une ville du nord Y a un ti-cul qui cherche encore Le fil de sa mémoire Et la lune d'automne Brillera ce soir
L'odeur d'encens dans les églises Comme au trottoir Des années grises Mes pas perdus Avec au coeur la grafignure De la plus belle de la plus pure Ma fée des rues Le gros Raymond qui lâche l'école Ma ligne de vie qui fait la folle Frontière fragile Entre l'homme et l'amour J'ai mal à mes seize ans J'ai tous les âges en même temps Et j't'attends
{au Refrain}
Je n'aime pas la nostalgie C'est une maîtresse inassouvie Aux yeux trop bleus Mais je t'emmène en ville à pied J'te fais présent de mon passé Si t'en veux Du haut d'la croix du Mont-Royal Je te confie mon idéal Et tous mes romans-fleuves à venir Tous mes enfants joueurs de tours Et mes automnes et mes amours À finir
{au Refrain}
Odd, I don't find a youtube, and it is a well-known song.
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Post by auntieannie on Oct 4, 2009 14:13:50 GMT
l'ame des poetes - Charles Trenet (= Le fou chantant)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2009 14:43:19 GMT
I was wrong on this. The Harvest Moon is September. October is the Hunter's Moon. Intermittent rain forecasted for today. Everytime I go outside to do some work it starts coming down,come inside,it stops.
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Post by auntieannie on Oct 4, 2009 15:07:57 GMT
casimira, this is the kind of weather we are used to here in the UK
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2009 15:10:49 GMT
January, Wolf Moon February,Snow Moon March,Worm Moon April,Pink Moon May,Corn Planting Moon June,Strawberry Moon July,Thunder Moon August,Green Corn Moon September,Harvest Moon October,Hunter's Moon November,Beaver Moon December,Cold Moon
source,Ye Old Farmer's Almanac
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Post by auntieannie on Oct 4, 2009 15:20:30 GMT
interesting, that, Casimira! I will check if there is a thread about growing food following the phases of the moon in the relevant section. I should go there more often.
Edited to say I have found your thread, Casimira! It'll be interesting to hear of your findings over the next few months/the next year!
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Post by BigIain on Oct 4, 2009 19:57:07 GMT
It was a lovely sunny but cool morning here, but now it is good weather to have a parapluie handy.
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Post by tillystar on Oct 5, 2009 9:57:50 GMT
Its absolutely hammering it down here. I got my big hooded coat out that is like a tent and keeps me dry and stil hands free, unlike a parapluie. I like it under there.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2009 10:28:41 GMT
It rained all last evening into the night,thwarted any view of the Hunter's Moon which I really wanted to photograph peeking through the neighboring pines. On into the early a.m.,have not looked to see what the rest of the day holds forth.
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Post by tillystar on Oct 5, 2009 10:45:34 GMT
The full moon was amazing here last night, it kept going in and out of the clouds, we watched it for ages it was like a perfect spooky house movie moon. We just needed a howling wolf or two.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2009 10:58:43 GMT
The full moon was amazing here last night, it kept going in and out of the clouds, we watched it for ages it was like a perfect spooky house movie moon. We just needed a howling wolf or two. Oh, I so wanted to see it! The October full moon is special to me for sentimental reasons. Glad you got to enjoy tilly.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2009 11:07:43 GMT
Rain at last in Paris! It has been a long time. (Sorry, T63!)
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Post by BigIain on Oct 5, 2009 11:35:38 GMT
Cant resist a great excuse for one of the all-time great Blues men.
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Post by bazfaz on Oct 5, 2009 15:21:28 GMT
Damn! We had twelve drops of rain at lunchtime. I counted them on the table in the courtyard. Sun is shining again.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2009 15:36:11 GMT
You can have ours baz. Two days now of solid rain,more in the forecast. I saw the weather map of the rest of the country this a.m.,looks like it's everywhere but the East Coast.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2009 23:34:30 GMT
It was as hot as an August day here today.upper 80's and muggy as all get out. Cycled to the farmer's market,came home,showered,went back out in it and am wiped. I need cool and drier back again in my life.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2009 5:09:16 GMT
We are having a tropical heat wave, courtesy of tropical storm Grace. Very strange to have summer weather in October.
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Post by BigIain on Oct 7, 2009 7:10:13 GMT
Its a beautiful sunny but cold morning here. Edinburgh is famous for sunrises. Sadly it is also famous for having clouded over by 10am
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Post by bjd on Oct 7, 2009 8:06:35 GMT
It's warm and windy here. Strong wind blowing from the southeast so the sky is not blue, but at 7 this morning it was already 20°.
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Post by bazfaz on Oct 7, 2009 9:54:48 GMT
We are forecast to have the same wind as bjd but it hasn't arrived in the Lot yet.
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Post by bjd on Oct 7, 2009 10:05:02 GMT
What is the wind called where you are, Baz? Here it's "vent d'autan" and in the Aude it's called "vent marin". I didn't realize that it went so far.
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Post by bazfaz on Oct 7, 2009 10:09:15 GMT
In fact in the fortnight we have been living here there has been no wind at all. Where we used to live we got the tramontane most frequently alternated with the marin. The wind here today is forecast to come from the southeast so I guess it is the tail end of a marin. Areas without a lot of wind tend not to name them, I think.
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Post by auntieannie on Oct 7, 2009 12:29:38 GMT
this morning was dry and agreeable, but it is now raining quite heavily. Hopefully it will calm down before I have to cycle home.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2009 12:36:03 GMT
More of same forecast here for today. Hot,upper 80F's,humid.My cool season vegetable seedlings are looking pretty piqued.
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Post by imec on Oct 7, 2009 13:06:13 GMT
Sunny but cool - high of 8c (46f) today. Very nice for a brisk walk actually.
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Post by rikita on Oct 7, 2009 13:47:24 GMT
sunny here
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Post by happytraveller on Oct 7, 2009 14:01:24 GMT
We've had glorious late summer weather all september long and today is about 25° still. I assume that it will change quite drastically from tomorrow on.
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Post by fumobici on Oct 7, 2009 15:15:26 GMT
Where we used to live we got the tramontane most frequently alternated with the marin.. In Italy the tramontana is a cold winter North wind. My father describes it as coming "from Russia". I've been told that the fleur de lis at the North of compass roses is a graphic representation of the "T" in tramontana. The Italians have really cool names for all their common winds. The scirocco will often coat everything in orange Saharan dust.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 7, 2009 15:51:44 GMT
Those are cool names!
It started raining steadily sometime in the wee hours last night. The unaccustomed but very welcome sound woke me. It finally stopped a little while ago, but it's heavily overcast -- it's a pearl of a day.
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Post by bjd on Oct 7, 2009 16:33:00 GMT
Our cold wind is also called the "tramontane", even though it doesn't come over mountains -- or from Russia! When we lived in eastern France, the cold wind from the east was "la bise", which led to jokes because it also means "the kiss", the kind on the cheeks, rather than on the mouth.
On occasion, after the south-easterly wind stops, we get Saharan dust too mixed in with rain.
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