Sundial of the Seasons: Hal Borland

I heard about this book while listening to our local radio station, WJTN. A call in mentioned a book about nature, a must have she called it, that had a short essay for each day of the year. The essays were Borland's observations of the changing natural world as he observed it from his CT. home. Over his life, he wrote thousands for the newspaper or magazine, and chose the 365 best and put them into his book. So each morning, I try to read one of the essays, to start my day. Yesterdays was entitled Autumn Rain, not that appropriate for yesterday, as it was a beautiful day, but apt for the previous week when we had rain non stop for almost a week. He describes it thus: "There is a persistent generosity to an Autumn rain that breeds monotony and then slow irritation. The earth needs rain but does it need so much without pause? The wearer of soggy shoes and a constantly dripping raincoat wonders if there isn't some means of distributing the weather, particularly the wet weather. And still it rains." Today's essay is called "Let it Frost," and aptly, we had our first frost in the areas yesterday morning though it only got down to 38 degrees here at the lake, as we tend to be protected somewhat by the lake.