DICK YARBROUGH: Sing a Song to the Precious Days of September

Oh, it’s a long, long while from May to December. But the days grow short when you reach September. Truer words were never spoken — or sung. I wish I had written those words, but they come from playwright Maxwell Anderson for the Broadway production of “Knickerbocker Holiday” in 1938. The play didn’t last long but the song, appropriately known as “September Song,” has endured.

Check your calendar. We are nearing the final quarter of the year 2024 and the days do grow short when you reach September. The sun is setting earlier. We will have had roughly 13 hours and 7 minutes of daylight on the first of this month and almost 3 minutes less at the end and going down every day thereafter for the rest of the year.