Crescent Lake, Olympic National Park
© Phillip Lott
Moving in silent desperation, keeping an eye on the Holy Land.
A hypothetical destination, say, who is this walking man?
Well, the leaves have come to turning and the goose has gone to fly,
And bridges are for burning, so don't you let that yearning pass you by.
Walking man, walking man walks.
Any other man stops and talks but the walking man walks.
Walking Man
Walking Man is the fifth studio album in singer-songwriterJames Taylor's discography. Released on June 1, 1974, it was not as successful as his previous efforts, only reaching #13 on the Billboard Album Chart and only selling 300,000 copies in the USA. It is also the only studio album he released that never received a certification as a gold record from the RIAA. The song "Walking Man", released as the album's first single, failed to place on the Billboard Hot 100 chart at all, but nevertheless stands today as an often reprised fan favorite.
Little River Dam, Belfast-Northport, Maine
© Phillip Lott
Well the frost is on the pumpkin and the hay is in the barn.
Pappy's come to rambling on, stumbling around drunk down on the farm.
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And the walking man walks. Doesn't know nothing at all.
Any other man stops and talks but the walking man walks on by, walk on by.
Bettles, Alaska
Most everybody's got seed to sow.
It ain't always easy for a weed to grow, oh no.
So he don't hoe the row for no one, for sure he's always missing,
and something ain't never quite right.
Ah, but who would want to listen to you kissing his existence good night?
Autumn Alley
Walking man walk. Walk on by my door. Well, any other man stops and talks
but not the walking man.
He's the walking man, born to walk, walk on walking man.
Autumn Mist
Well now, would he have wings to fly? Would he be free?
Golden wings against the sky, walking man, walk on by.
So long, walking man.
Autumn
(otoño, l'automne, autunno, осень)
Autumn Mountains
Autumn leaves under frozen souls,
Hungry hands turning soft and old,
My hero cried as we stood out there in the cold,
Like these autumn leaves I don't have nothing to hold.
Handsome smile, wearing handsome shoes,
Too young to say, though I swear he knew,
And I hear him singing while he sits there in his chair,
While these autumn leaves float around everywhere.
And I look at you, and I see me,
Making noise so restlessly,
But now it's quiet and I can hear you saying,
'My little fish don't cry, my little fish don't cry.'
Autumn leaves have faded now,
That smile I lost, well I've found somehow,
Because you still live on in my father's eyes,
These autumn leaves, all these autumn leaves,
all these autumn leaves are yours tonight.
A track from Paolo Nutini's debut album, this song is about Nutini's grandfather who passed away when Paolo was 12 years old.
Nutini's family has owned a fish and chip shop for generations in his hometown Paisley in Scotland. When Nutini was a child and his parents were busy working in the store, they would send him to his grandfather's house, which is where he was first introduced to music. He witnessed his grandfather experience the different stages of grief about the death of his grandmother. Nutini spoke to The Big Issue about watching his grandfather channel those emotions into music. "He'd be sat at the piano with his glasses with the brown tint, head up, eyes closed, and just playing these beautiful arias from Aida and other operas," he said. "Every now and again I can even remember the wee tear trickling down. To me he was just singing and looking up and he was just like, 'I hope you can hear this, darling.'"
Autumn Road
A Walk in the Woods
Alberta, Canada
Autumn Birch
Autumn Brook
Autumn Falls
Autumn Light in the Woods
Autumn Mist Rising
Estes Park, Colorado
Autumn Palm Trees, California
Autumn Sun,
Lake Harris, Leesburg, Florida
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Sea surface height anomalies (departures from average) during the northern-autumn phase of the last four La Niña events, including the one now beginning. Higher sea surface heights (red and white areas) are associated with warmer upper-ocean temperatures. Image credit: NASA imagery, compilation courtesy Jan Null, @ggweather, Golden Gate Weather Services.
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Persist into 2017
La Niña 2016-17 isn’t looking like a spectacular event. Model runs released this week from the North American Multi-Model Ensemble (see Figure 3 below) are in general agreement that this should bottom out as a weak La Niña event over the next several months, with SSTs gradually returning to the neutral range by late winter or early spring. In their joint predictions from early November, forecasters at NOAA and the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) call for neutral conditions to be the most likely state by the first quarter of 2017 (see Figure 4 below). Hints of a possible return to El Niño in 2017-18 are already showing up in the longest-range model runs. The NOAA/IRI outlook gives odds twice as high for El Niño (about 30%) as for La Niña (about 15%) by summer 2017, although neutral conditions remain the most likely outcome.