Sumer is not icumen in

...unless you are in Australia or New Zealand or Santiago, Chile (famous for having been Yorkshire Pudding's jumping-off place for his trip to Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, in 2009) or anywhere south of Mount Kilimanjaro on the continent of Africa (our grandson had a magnificent view of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania from his front door during the summer he spent in southern Kenya several years ago, but that is a topic for another day).

Wikipedia tells us that "Sumer is icumen in" is the incipit of a medieval English round or rota of the mid-13th century; it is also known variously as the Summer Canon and the Cuckoo Song. You may consider this your factoid for the day and look up the word "incipit" later, if you so choose.

In Canton, Georgia, USA, this morning it is 29°F (-1.67°C) and we have had the second frost of the season in our back yard (British, garden). Sumer is a-goin' out in my part of the world. In fact, it is long gone; we are actually two-thirds of the way through autumn (spring for those readers covered in the opening paragraph above).

No news is good news, as they say, and I have nothing else to say except that I do not like cold weather at all and am not looking forward to the next three months. Sumer can't be icumen back in too soon for me. To paraphrase Maya Angelou, I know why the cuckoo sings.

Have a good day.

Here is a panoramic view of Santiago, Chile, where apparently one can have summer and winter simultaneously.

(Photograph used in accordance with GNU Free Documentation License)

P.S. -- Here is another factoid, a bonus factoid of the day, a sub-factoid, if you will. Santiago, Chile, and San Diego, California are both named in honor (British, honour) of the same person, Saint James. The Hebrew name Jacob somehow becomes James in English, but in Italian it is rendered Iago (are you listening, Shakespeare?) and in Spanish Diego.

You are very welcome.

T.T.F.N.