Rīdend mann færþ ofer ēarīme, his fana stillu, and sēo blāce blōstm þe hē healdþ þyncþ tō ontȳnenne tō þām orierde þǣr twēgen torras standaþ, and sēo ǣreste ecg dægrēde betwēonan him birst. Hit is tīd betwēonan stilnesse and styrunge, se gemǣrland þǣr endas ne sind misrǣd ac þryccung nīwes hīwes on þā worulde. Se lyft smæccþ eorþan and glēda, and sum eald þing wīcþ under þæs horses hōfum, swā se dæg ānlīce cume æfter þām þe þæt ǣrre is þǣre eorþan gifen.
On feorrum hyrnum Anatolia, þǣr ealde wegas yrnaþ þurh windbogene gærs, standaþ grāfas wildra apricot swīgende. Heora wæstm, gehrinced and līegbeorht, gaderaþ on leapum æt sumeres belūcinge. Læcene wīf, heora handa strange of gearum dāhcnedunge, drȳgaþ þās apricot on flætum stānum, and wendaþ hīe under þǣre sunnan oþ þæt heora swētnes dēopaþ and heora flǣsc wierþ þicce and þurhwunigende. Hit is þeaw gehealdnesse, and giefþ fēdinge þām cealdum mōnþum, behāt þæt līf gǣþ forþ þurh forlætunge þæs þe tō rīpe is. Þās apricot, hwīlum tōdǣlede and gedrȳgde, faraþ feorr: on pūsan cēapmanna on þām Sīdenwege, on hātum ofnum bæcera, on handa cilda þāra hleahtor on stānenum cafertūnum gȳt hlīewþ lange æfter þām þe þā apricottrēow heora leaf forluron.
On þām hēan feldum Oaxaca wefaþ wīf clāþ of þrǣdum þæs magueyplantes. Hīe dȳfaþ þrǣdas on fatum þǣr hīe rinda biterra wæstma gesoden habbaþ and bladu lætra blōstmana geþrūtene, and lācaþ blēo þe on þæt clāþ gǣþ swā gemynd þe þurh bān sīhþ. Þā sculdorhrægl þe hīe wyrcaþ sind āgifene wīfum æt giftunge anginne and wuduwan æt hire ende. Ǣlc sculdorhrægl, ymbe sculdru bewunden wiþ beorga ceald, mearcaþ ǣgþer ge þone færeld ge þone cyme. On heora hūsum begȳmaþ þās wīf lȳtle fȳr, and fēdaþ hīe mid heortantrēowe mesquite. Se smoca rīsþ on wundnum stānum, gestenced and strang, and berþ mid him gebed þāra gewitenena and hyht þāra lifigendra. Þā glēda under þām cytele glōwaþ, and behātaþ wærmþe, ac hīe biddaþ þæt þæs dæges ascan sīen āswāpene ǣr nīwe līg fōn mæge.
Elles, on þām westerran Sāhara, blǣwþ se harmattan. Þes wind, þe dūst berþ of ealdum sǣbeddum Chad, færþ ofer tūnas and bebyrgþ giestrandæges fōtlastas. Hē is ǣgþer ge earfoþ ge edniwung. Þæt ealde is āfeormod, se lyft geworht scearp and sweotol, and sēo woruld smæccþ smēagum wyrte and īsene. Æfter þām winde clǣnsiaþ cēapmenn heora stallas, and brēadaþ sand of ætīewedum drȳgra persimmon and coperenra cytela. Hīe onginnaþ eft, and tēoþ nīwe gemǣru on þām ilcan cūþan grunde.
Æt belūcinge ǣlces dæges mæg mann apricot ontȳnan and gemunan þā hand þe þæt sǣd plantode. Man mæg ascan of þām heorþe swāpan, and rūm lǣfan þæs nīehstan mēles fȳre. Mid handāwefenum sculdorhrægle bewunden, mæg mann ārian þæt þe geendod is and onlōcian þām þe onginnan sceal. Þonne se wind þone duruþerscold clǣnsaþ, stand and āþīg þæt þe gecumen is, gearu tō mearcienne þæt leaf nīwlīce.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Deorc geolurēad.
Lucky Color: DarkOrange — #FF8C00Þerscold, and wæstmes endesta lāc, and wærmþ þe þā niht oferlīfþ.