AUGUST ... LUNASA

On this day in 2019 I was at a garden show somewhere near Rutland Water. In my culture August (Lunasa) is the season of mellow fruitfulness.  It is the time of harvest, of getting the spuds, in storing the food which will sustain us through an geimhreadh. The last of the raspberries, the main crop of blackberries, the coming of the apples, respite from sunsets ag dul anoir. Visitors to the Inishowen are sometimes let in on the secret of sunsets going east. I am not going to spoil my own brother's experiences of sunsets going east but I can let you in on the fact that he has a bothán at Dunree looking out on Fanad head and I stay there when I am in Inishowen