{"id":5413,"date":"2021-10-25T23:58:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T23:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/?p=5413"},"modified":"2025-09-17T17:08:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T17:08:13","slug":"october-25-2021-a-blue-day-in-sauk-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/october-25-2021-a-blue-day-in-sauk-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"October 25, 2021: A Blue Day in Sauk Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Looking<\/p>\n

\"Autumn<\/p>\n

October’s weather isn’t necessarily “bright blue,” here in the Upper Midwest.<\/p>\n

But today was a bright blue day. So I spent a little time this afternoon, sitting on the front stoop, enjoying sunshine and what autumn colors we have this year.<\/p>\n

And remembering this poem:<\/p>\n

“October’s Bright Blue Weather<\/strong>
\n“O suns and skies and clouds of June,
\nAnd flowers of June together,
\nYe cannot rival for one hour
\nOctober’s bright blue weather;
\n“When loud the bumblebee makes haste,
\nBelated, thriftless vagrant,
\nAnd goldenrod is dying fast,
\nAnd lanes with grapes are fragrant….”
\n(Helen Hunt Jackson<\/a> (published 1893) via AllPoetry.com)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Looking<\/a>This summer’s drought was a bad one. An ‘up’ side to the nearly-rainless weather is that I didn’t see a mosquito until August.<\/p>\n

I’ve talked about that \u2014 the drought, not the mosquito \u2014 and other stuff:<\/p>\n