Midwinter Spring is its own Season

[steepholm]

I know, Jack in the Green is a May Day figure. Indeed, I saw him last May, walking down the Gloucester Road...



... but in this strangely spring-like winter, rife with unseasonal daffodils and confused squirrels, Jack's a natural figure to mark the Solstice. Besides, "Jack in the Green" is a song as much about winter as spring.

(Oh, and Happy Birthday, Will.)

Comments

[nightspore.livejournal.com]

Ian Anderson / Jethro Tull seems to be everywhere the last couple of weeks. Interesting fact: he once wrote Harold Bloom a fan letter (in the seventies), and proposed that they do a concept album together. Bloom, amused, declined.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Wow, I'd love to have heard that!