Tag: end of summer

This Time of the Year, Again

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We had a hot and dry spring, a summer with a wet spell and then hot again. I’ve been enjoying the hot weather tremendously, much more than in recent years for very personal reasons. The heat has come back last week and I took delight in the weather during the last week of my holidays. I took my bike out this afternoon and cycled down the road in the summer sun – when these guys stopped me short.

“Noooooo! Not yet!!”

The geese in the meadow are a stark reminder of summer’s end. These geese will be fattened up for another two months or three to be served either on as traditional goose at Martinmas or as Christmas dinner. Time waits for no one. Not for summer. Not for the geese. Not for me.

Lens-Artists Challenge: Time

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Polite request of a gardener at the end of summer

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12 end of summer

This witty poem about apples and pears and seasonal occupations of young rascals is by Theodor Storm, a well-known German writer.  He wrote it about 150 years ago and it was published in a calendar to portray late summer woes (and pleasures).

I couldn’t find a translation so I tried my hand on it.  Bear in mind that the German is by choice overly polite and very contrived.  If somebody knows of a translation, I’d be very interested to read it:

August (personal ad)

The esteemed lads who are this season
planning to steal my apples and pears
are kindly requested if at all possible
to restrain themselves in these affairs
so as not to trample my carrots and peas
In the adjoining patches, please.

Here is the orignal:

August (Inserat)

Die verehrlichen Jungen, welche heuer
Meine Äpfel und Birnen zu stehlen gedenken,
Ersuche ich höflichst, bei diesem Vergnügen
Wo möglich insoweit sich zu beschränken,
Dass sie daneben auf den Beeten
Mir die Wurzeln und Erbsen nicht zertreten.

Linked to K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo prompt: The end of summer.