October 31: All Hallows Eve, Samhain and Day of the Dead

Today is a day of multiple celebrations: All Hallows Eve, Samhain and Day of the Dead (and Mercury has gone into retrograde for the final time this year—until November 20).

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Today is a solar day of multiple celebrations : All Hallows Eve , Samhainand Day of the Dead ( and Mercury has get into retrograde for the final meter this yr - until November 20 ) . We have had implausibly warm weather - today was nearly 70 and it felt downright balmy outdoors . It rained this forenoon and was quite breezy and cloudy all day ; the non-white leaves have been floating down unceasingly . The earth is literally littered with leaves . I give thanks for the splendiferous trees . Paul Strauss calls them “ The Big Herbs ” and has a book by the same championship , which I purchased at United Plant Savers - I advocate it .

October 31 is all Hallow ’s Eve and there will be lots of dressing up in costumes and thaumaturgy - or - treating from glide to seashore . I like to see the ornament : cornstalks , straw Basel , brightly color chrysanthemum , wintertime squash , calabash and casual scarecrows beautify porch , yards , fences and lampposts . I have pumpkins , squash , gourds , Osage River oranges and mums on and around my backporch , and of grade give notice jars with candles and twinkle lights deep down and out .

In Ireland , from crepuscule on October 31 into the even of November 1 is the celebration called Samhain ( pronounced sow - en ) , which is a day I give thanks for the garden H.M.S. Bounty , the sodbuster and the foods that we have harvested from our garden . This mean solar day starts the raw yearly cycle for the Celtic people and lionise the harvest season act in to the death and rebirth of the earth ; it is celebrated with seasonal foods and then a metre of muted wait and introspection .

Also , Day of the Dead lead off today through tomorrow - it is a day to recall and honor our ancestors . It is celebrated in Mexico with all type of food - one is guess to ready the food that sure loved ones like well and put it on the Lord’s table . There is music and flowers everywhere , most specially the golden - Orange River marigold is traditional . And so I ’ve foregather in all of my marigolds along with some brilliant nasturtiums and arranged an autumnal tabular array and will light candles this evening , and think about those who have passed before us . I sort of merge all three celebrations into two days , so the table has squash , gourds , chiles , an herbal garland and efflorescence and candle .

I harvest greens from the garden for supper : chard , clams , Eruca vesicaria sativa , genus Nasturtium leaves and some chickweed , which I will droop down . There is winter squash baking in the oven - Delicata and white walnut - enough for dinner tonight and some puree to make pumpkin scone ( squeeze is a cracking substitute ) tomorrow . Will toss the veggies with some alimentary paste and Parmigniano , olive fossil oil and garlic for a sodding seasonal supper .

Tomorrow even , November 1 , we have a hoar admonition for my zone 7 Maryland garden . I will spend the solar day cleaning up all of the outside plants in container , pulling out leaves and weeds and trim them back and post them into the glasshouse .

trust you have a mean solar day or two of celebration and reflection – whatever you might be celebrating - Halloween , Samhain , Day of the Dead - and happy harvest home season !

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