Althouse: Just now, the wind catches the rye.

November 22, 2009

Just now, the wind catches the rye.

13 comments:

Bissage said...: Genius!; 11/22/09, 11:39 AM
bearbee said...: Meade plant rye grass for the winter?; 11/22/09, 12:05 PM
chickelit said...: How wry!; 11/22/09, 12:16 PM
Irene said...: "Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."

Obama is like Holden Caulfield.; 11/22/09, 12:17 PM
Steve M. Galbraith said...: Looks to me that Meade missed a spot.

"These intellectual guys don't like to have an intellectual conversation with you unless they're running the whole thing. They always want you to shut up when they shut up, and go back to your room when they go back to their room."; 11/22/09, 1:08 PM
rhhardin said...: There's some very satisfactory autumn wind at 30 seconds into this video (Oct 30).

That was back before the leaves had quite decided where they are going to spend the winter.; 11/22/09, 1:21 PM
vbspurs said...: Ahh, Americans and their front lawns. You won't understand them as a people until you get that, and all-you-can-eat buffets.

Cheers,
Victoria; 11/22/09, 1:32 PM
vbspurs said...: wv: shaggby!

Sounds like a really hip 60s Cockney actor.; 11/22/09, 1:32 PM
Penny said...: "O, Jenny's a' weet, poor body,
Jenny's seldom dry:
She draigl't a' her petticoatie,
Comin thro' the rye!

Comin thro' the rye, poor body,
Comin thro' the rye,
She draigl't a' her petticoatie,
Comin thro' the rye!

Gin a body meet a body
Comin thro' the rye,
Gin a body kiss a body,
Need a body cry?

Gin a body meet a body
Comin thro' the glen,
Gin a body kiss a body,
Need the warl' ken?

Gin a body meet a body
Comin thro' the grain;
Gin a body kiss a body,
The thing's a body's ain.

Ev'ry Lassie has her laddie,
Nane, they say, have I,
Yet all the lads they smile on me,
When comin' thro' the rye."; 11/22/09, 1:55 PM
Anonymous said...: When the wind hits the rye
as the fall breeze blows by,
that's amore.; 11/22/09, 2:48 PM
Jason (the commenter) said...: I happen to know the language of flowers, and grass means grass.; 11/22/09, 3:21 PM
Ann Althouse said...: "Ahh, Americans and their front lawns. You won't understand them as a people until you get that..."

I think Americans are more about their backyards than their front yards (though I rarely set foot in my backyard). As for lawns, around here people are not so lawn crazy. There are lots of gardens and ground cover. And wait til people see what Meade has planned.; 11/22/09, 5:35 PM
Penny said...: "I think Americans are more about their backyards than their front yards."

Doesn't that depend on whether they are "relaxing and/or playing" or "showing off"?

Maybe a better way to state that is "letting their hair down" or "putting their best face forward".; 11/22/09, 6:27 PM