Day 278…August light

Photo credit: F.M.

At the end of August there is something that happens with the light that is so beautiful.

While I was thinking of the light in August, I was reminded that William Faulkner wrote a novel of the very name. Time for a reread, but here is something from it:

“. . .in August in Mississippi there’s a few days somewhere about the middle of the month when suddenly there’s a foretaste of fall, it’s cool, there’s a lambence, a soft, a luminous quality to the light, as though it came not from just today but from back in the old classic times. It might have fauns and satyrs and the gods and---from Greece, from Olympus in it somewhere. It lasts just for a day or two, then it’s gone….” (William Faulkner, Light in August)