Maybe it's the reunions with friends and the settling in to familiar routines as the children return to school. September just seems easier, more comfortable. The ninth month of the Gregorian Calendar, was actually the seventh month of the Roman Calendar. It's name comes from the Latin septem , meaning seven September has a feel all it's own, pleasant and cool and relaxed. Maybe it goes back to our agricultural past , when harvest time was a time of abundance, and the period after harvest something of a break in the struggle for subsistence.
Agricultural fairs celebrate the abundance of fall.
Where I grew up the Blue Hill Fair was one of the harbingers of fall. These days we're more apt to be seen at the Maine Organic Farmers and Grower's Association's Common Ground Country Fair . I don't always attend, but just knowing it's going on evokes that September feeling. As the nights cool, the television re-runs end and the new network season begins. Years ago it happened all at once.